The package below has been updated and should soon be at the mirror near you.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pdfsync
Author's name: Laurens
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfsync
Summary description: LaTeX package to synchronize between source and pdf output
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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pdfsync.sty allows one to synchronize between LaTeX source and pdf output.
When used with a text editor and a PDF viewer that both support pdfsync,
you can navigate from the source to the output and vice versa.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfsync
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pdfsync
(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 .
The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pst-solides3d
Author's name: Jean-Paul Vignault
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solide3d
Summary description: Draw solids in 3d perspective
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package pst-solides3d is designed to draw solids in 3d
perspective.
Features include:
- create primitive solids
- create solids by including a list of its vertices and faces ;
- faces of solids and surfaces can be colored by choosing from a
very large palette of colors ;
- draw parametric surfaces in algebraic and reverse polish notation ;
- create explicit and parameterized algebraic functions drawn in 2 or 3
dimensions ;
- project text onto a plane and onto the faces of a solid ;
- support for including external database files ;
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solide3d
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-solides3d
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
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Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: foiltex2.1.4b
Author's name: Jim Hafner
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/foiltex
Summary description: FoilTeX 2.1.4b (with patch for hyperref 6.77a)
License type: nocommercial
Announcement text:
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New release of FoilTeX (2.1.4b) -- fixes an incompatibility with recent
versions of hyperref, specifically 6.77a.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/foiltex
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/foiltex
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The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
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Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: semaphore
Author's name: VÃt Zýka
Location on CTAN: /fonts/semaphore
Summary description: Semaphore alphabet font.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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OpenType and Type1 versions of the semaphore alphabet fonts (semaf).
The semaf font family contains 5 shapes (regular, bold, slanted, bold
slanted, and mono) in 3 variants (differ by a pillar shape). They were
obtained by rewriting the original Metafont sources to Metatype1 and
utilizing FontForge.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/semaphore
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/semaphore
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be
at your favorite mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: thailatex
Author's name: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
Location on CTAN: /language/thai/thailatex
Summary description: Babel-based Thai support with fonts
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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thailatex is a Thai package which enables typesetting Thai with LaTeX's
standard document classes. It is meant to become a part of babel, a
multilingual package for LaTeX which supports a lot of non-American
languages.
This version has been relicensed as LPPL. The Thai babel macro file has
been rewritten as .dtx, for documentation. The fonts are updated to
latest versions, with four new fonts added. One LIGKERN bug has been
fixed using Werner Lemberg's method as published in TUGboat Volume 21
(2000), No. 2.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/thai/thailatex
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/thailatex
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The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be
at your favorite mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pgfplots
Author's name: Christian Feuersänger
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots
Summary description: Create normal/logarithmic plots in LaTeX
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Pgfplots draws high-quality function plots in normal or logarithmic
scaling with a user-friendly interface. The user supplies axis labels, legend
entries and the plot coordinates for one or more plots and Pgfplots applies
axis scaling, computes any logarithms and axis ticks and draws the plots.
It is based on Till Tantau's package PGF/TikZ.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgfplots
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A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
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Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: a mexican dialect of spanish
Author's name: Luis Rivera
Location on CTAN: /language/spanish/nonstandard/mx
Summary description: language and configuration files to typeset spanish
in mexico
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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These files help the user to typeset texts in spanish according to
mexican current practices with the babel system. They effectively merge
an old (and short-lived) mexican.ldf with spanish.ldf, or else provide
a configuration file to typeset all spanish documents in a given
system according to the `mexico' option defined by spanish.ldf v5.0
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/spanish/nonstandard/mx
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mx
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: vxu
Author's name: Robert Nyqvist
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/vxu
Summary description: Document classes for Växjö University
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Document classes for formatting theses and exams in the format required
at Växjö University, Sweden.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/vxu
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/vxu
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A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and by now should have
reached the mirrors.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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Package name: Spanish-babel
Package author: Javier Bezos
Location: languages/spanish/babel
Description: This is the developer's latest working version of Spanish
support for Babel.
For more, please see:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/spanish/babel
.
Philipp Lehman wrote:
> I've uploaded `etoolbox.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK
> node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox. Please
> purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as
> usual.
i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
> ABOUT
>
> The etoolbox package is a toolbox of programming facilities geared
> primarily towards LaTeX class and package authors. It provides LaTeX
> frontends to some of the new primitives provided by e-TeX as well as
> some generic tools which are not related to e-TeX but match the
> profile of this package.
>
> CHANGES
>
> * Resolved conflict with tex4ht
users may view the catalogue entry at
http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/etoolbox.html
or browse the package directory at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox/
thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team