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CTAN Update: TeXshade v1.18
by CTAN Announcements 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 Eric Beitz submitted an update to the texshade package. TeXshade is an alignment shading software completely written in TeX/LaTeX which can process multiple sequence alignments in the .MSF and the .ALN file format. It provides in addition to common shading algorithms special shading modes featuring functional aspects, e.g. charge or hydropathy, and a plenitude of commands for handling shading colours, text styles, labels, legends and even allows the user to define completely new shading modes. TeXshade combines highest flexibility and the habitual TeX output quality—with reasonable time expenditure. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ Summary description: Update of the DNA and protein sequence alignment LaTeX package TeXshade License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update of the DNA and protein sequence alignment LaTeX package TeXshade (v1.18). It mainly contains bug fixes concerning featurenames, ordering, numbering, and the setends command. Further, T-Coffee shading can now be imported and displayed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=texshade (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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new CTAN package: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

>From my upload daemon: > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/siunitx > Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package > License type: lppl i have installed the package as suggested, and have made an entry in the catalogue. > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ----------------------------------------------------------- > The siunitx package --- A comprehensive (SI) units package > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Typesetting values with units requires care to ensure that > the combined mathematical meaning of the value plus unit > combination is clear. In particular, the SI units system > lays down a consistent set of units with rules on how these > are to be used. However, different countries and > publishers have differing conventions on the exact > appearance of numbers (and units). A number of LaTeX > packages have been developed to provide consistent > application of the various rules: SIunits, sistyle, > unitsdef and units are the leading examples. The numprint > package provides a large number of number-related > functions, while dcolumn and rccol provide tools for > typesetting tabular numbers. > > The siunitx package takes the best from the existing > packages, and adds new features and a consistent interface. > A number of new ideas have been incorporated, to fill gaps > in the existing provision. The package also provides > backward-compatibility with SIunits, sistyle, unitsdef and > units. The aim is to have one package to handle all of the > possible unit-related needs of LaTeX users. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This release is the second public version of the package, > which was originally released as si in February 2008. > Thanks to all of the feedback contributors to date, many of > whom have provided valuable ideas for this new release. > The new version brings with a a large number of changes > (see siunitx.pdf for a full list). Many of these are > internal, and so the headline changes only are given > here. > > Major/interface changes: > - Package name change from si to siunitx, to make searching > archives easier and to emphasise unit-related nature of the > package. > - unitsym macro renamed si > - Now use e-TeX protected mechanism for all user macros and > units > - unitsdef-like unit macros can now be turned on and off, > allowing direct use of single unit macros in running text > - Various improvements to handling of numerical input, such > as removal of excess leading zeros > - Potential macro names clashes with other packages handled > better; known clashing macros all available with doubled > initial letter (e.g. ssquare, bar, ...) > - meter added to package kernel > - liter defined along with litre > > Bug fixes: > - Material added to columns by array package > ({stuff}>c<{more stuff}) now works correctly when s column > is last in a table > - Errors in some unit definitions fixed > - Fixed minor alignment bug in tabular material > - Binary units now give correct base when using > prefixsymbolic=false option > > Option changes: > - Separated out font macros into unit and value variants > - Tabular options overhauled: tabalign, tabtextalign, > tabformat now used for fine control > - Several options given clearer names > - New options added to support new features > > New features: > - Colour support > - fancynum and fancyunits emulation > - Better control of alignment of tabular material > - Automated handling of error data in numbers > - per macro can now be set to sticky > > Plus a large amount of work on documentation, including > much better description of package options. The package > documentation needs quite a complete TeX system to compile. > It is therefore provided pre-built in two versions: - > siunitx.pdf includes code - 158 pages - siunitx-manual.pdf > - user documentation only, 43 pages The later should be > okay for most users. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Feedback on all aspects of the package is welcome. The > current road map allows one more release with arbitrary > interface changes. Comments on macro and option names are > therefore particularly welcome at this stage. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Please be advised that this package is in beta stage and > released for testing only. TeX distributors are advised to > wait for version 1.0. The version number will be stepped up > to 1.0 as soon as it is considered suitable for general > distribution. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/exptl/siunitx thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAn Update: ctable 1.12
by CTAN Announcements 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the ctable package. ctable.sty provides commands to easily typeset centered or left or right aligned tables and (multiple-)figure floats, with footnotes. Instead of an environment, a command with 4 arguments is used; the first is optional and is used for key,value pairs generating variations on the defaults and offering a route for future extensions. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ctable License: LPPL --------------------------------------------------------------------- - major changes (relative to v1.11): - added option notespar, typesetting footnotes in a paragraph, one after the other. Useful for tables with many short footnotes. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ctable . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ctable (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: biblatex-dw
by CTAN Announcements 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 Dominik Wassenhoven submitted an update to the biblatex-dw package. It is 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: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.1b - BUGFIX: When using parencite with 'footnote-dw', additional parentheses (e.g. enclosing the string 'editor') were lost; they are now replaced by brackets. - BUGFIX: In 'footnote-dw', the normal cite command always produced a capital letter at the beginning. This is fixed now. - Fixed a small punctuation error in connection with 'herename';. - New command itleaddonpunct for the punctuation before titleaddon, booktitleaddon and maintitleaddon. The default is a period now (not a comma, as before). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/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

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CTAN has a new package: varsfromjobname
by CTAN Announcements 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

The package below has been installed on 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: varsfromjobname Author's name: Uwe Ziegenhagen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/varsfromjobname Summary description: extracts tokens from jobname License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- varsfromjobname.sty extracts variables from the name of the LaTeX file. If the name of the file consists of tokens separated by hyphen, the package offers the following commands: getonefromjobname gettwofromjobname getthreefromjobname getfourfromjobname getfivefromjobname getsixfromjobname getsevenfromjobname geteightfromjobname getninefromjobname Usage: a) Save your LaTeX-file under a name such as 2008-04-14-ziegenhagen.tex b) Load the package by putting usepackage{varsfromjobname} in the preamble of your document c) Use the commands given above to address the specific parts of the filename. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/varsfromjobname . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/varsfromjobname (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: endheads 1.4
by CTAN Announcements 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

The package below has been put up 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: endheads 1.4 Author's name: John Burt Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/endheads Summary description: Running headers for endnotes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Endheads 1.4 makes running headers of the form Notes to pp. XX--YY for endnotes sections. Version 1.4 adds compatibility with memoir class, and adds more ability to use endheads in multilingual environments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/endheads . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/endheads (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 package update: csquotes 4.1
by CTAN Announcements 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '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. Please > purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as > usual. 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 > > * Fixed timing issue with active quotes introduced in 4.0 thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. users may read the catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/csquotes.html or browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/ the catalogue entry will be updated overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: vc
by CTAN Announcements 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

The package below has been updated and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: vc bundle Author's name: Stephan Hennig Location on CTAN: /support/vc Summary description: version control for TeX and friends License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The vc bundle ---------------------- This is a script based approach to version control for TeX documents. It works more reliably than keyword substitution based approaches, since it tracks all files in a working copy, not only .tex files. The vc bundle works with LaTeX and plain TeX. Currently, Bazaar, Git and Subversion are supported. v0.4 (2008-04-10) ---------------------- Incompatibel changes: * Search for local modifications only at request (relevant to macro VCRevisionMod, see appendix B). Changes: * Again improved locale handling. * Improved compatibility for Subversion within Msys shell. * Improved documentation: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/vc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/vc (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: minipage-marginpar
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 Paul Ebermann submitted an update to the minipage-marginpar package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/minipage-marginpar Summary description: Package-update: minipage-marginpar (bugfix and namechange) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows marginpar -commands inside of minipages and other boxes. (It takes another approach than marginnote by Markus Kohm: it saves all marginpar -commands and typesets them outside (i.e., after) the box.) Version 0.3 fixes a bug, which caused marginpars of some kind only appearing on odd pages, not even ones. In my documents I don't have much of those, so I remarked it only now, nearly two years after version 0.2 (which introduced this bug, fixing another one). At the same time, i decided to change the name of the package files from mpgmpar to minipage-marginpar, as already is the CTAN directory name. (There is a compatibility style file, which simply loads the new one.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/minipage-marginpar . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?minipage-marginpar (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: The caption package v3.1h
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: Customising captions of floating environments License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated Russian documentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=caption (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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