>From the Cambridge upload daemon:
> Name of contribution: SIunits
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Author's email: joseph.wright(a)morningstar2.co.uk
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/SIunits
> Summary description: Typeset physical units following the rules of the International System of Units (SI)
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v1.36:
> * Now uses real minus sign in text mode
> * Requires amstext (due to the above)
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i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository;
thanks for the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/SIunits.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/SIunits
the catalogue entry (only slightly changed) will be updated overnight;
the package itself is already on its way around the world.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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Herbert Voss has provided an update for his Mathmode tutorial document.
He writes:
Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> This new version 2.29 has the following changes:
>
> 2.29 2007-11-30
> - added two special symbols Let and eL
> - typo with BlueSky
> - package fixltx2e with command MakeRobust
> - small example for limits
> - www.yandy.com -> www.pctex.com
> - added an example for aligned vertical dots
> - typos
> - added an appendix for the package file list of the pdflatex run
I have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
Thanks for the upload.
Users may view the catalogue entry at
http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/voss-mathmode.html
or browse the package directory at
http://mirror.ctan.org/info/math/voss/mathmode/
(The minor change to the catalogue will propagate overnight; the updated
package is on its way already.)
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the
animate
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/animate
Summary description: creating portable PDF animations from graphics files and inline graphics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update comes with
- support for multipage PDF inclusion with animategraphics
- new options bb, viewport and trim to manipulate the graphics bounding box (borrowed from the `graphicx' package)
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/animate
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=animate
(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
The package below has been updated 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: bpolynomial
Author's name: Stephan Hennig
Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/bpolynomial/
Summary description: Drawing polynomials with MetaPost.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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bpolynomial v0.4, 2007-11-28
The MetaPost package bpolynomial helps drawing polynomial functions
of up to degree three. It provides macros to calculate Bezier curves
exactly matching a given constant, linear, quadratic or cubic polynomial.
Additionally, paths of derivatives and tangents can be calculated.
Changes to v0.3:
* New:
+ The package can now compute paths of derivatives and tangents.
+ Improved documentation.
Please update the catalogue entry with the new package description.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/bpolynomia…
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bpolynomial
(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 .
Oleg Katsitadze has provided a package which has been mirrored,
automatically, to CTAN. He writes:
I'm happy to announce a new release of Eplain (3.2), a set of TeX
macros that expands on and extends the definitions in plain TeX in a
style-neutral fashion. Eplain's home page is
http://tug.org/eplain
Location on CTAN is
/macros/eplain
The manual is available on-line from Eplain's home, or as a hard-copy
from
http://www.lulu.com/content/113810
(Royalties are donated to the TeX Users Group.)
Here's an excerpt from the NEWS file.
* Fixed a bug which caused silent indexing macros to output spurious
space in vertical mode.
* Added a switch to disable index file input/output.
* Fixed xref and bibliography label definition macros so that reading
in a .aux file with a large number of label definitions does not
overflow the save stack.
* Fixed double-column macros -- they were occasionally losing material
and producing columns too high to fit on a page. Also improved
appearance of the last column, which often came out spaced out.
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I've updated the catalogue, and the new version should be widely
available by now. Users may view the catalogue entry at
http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/eplain.html
or browse the distribution at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/eplain/
Thanks for the continuing support of the package, Oleg.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
The package below has bee updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon
be at your favorite 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: FiXme version 3.3
Author's name: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fixme
Summary description: A LaTeX2e package for inserting fixme and meta-notes
in your documents
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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I'm happy to announce the next edition of FiXme: version 3.3
New in this release:
* Document incompatibility between marginal layout and the ACM SIG classes
* Honor twoside option in marginal layout
* Support KOMA-Script classes version 2006/07/30 v2.95b
* Documentation improvements
* Fix incompatibility with AMS-Art
* Fix bug in fixme@footnotetrue
FiXme provides you with a way of inserting fixme notes in your
documents. Such notes can appear inline, as marginal notes, footnotes, index
entries, in the log file and as warnings on stdout. It is also possible to
summarize them in a list. When you switch from draft to final mode, any
remaining fixme note will be logged, but removed from the document's body.
Additionally, critical notes will abort compilation with an informative
message. FiXme also comes with support for AUC-TeX.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fixme
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/FiXme
(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 Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Werner Lemberg submitted an update to the
arphic
package.
These are font bundles for the Chinese Arphic fonts which work with the CJK package.
Arphic is actually the name of the company that which created the fonts
(and put them under a GPL-like licence).
Location on CTAN: /fonts/arphic
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The four bundles contain revised versions of the four Arphic fonts bundles
for simplified and traditional Chinese, as used in the CJK package for
LaTeX. It fixes omissions of some vertical glyph representation forms,
improves the TFM metrics (however, the widths stay unchanged), and
provides smaller PFB subfont files due to a newer version of FontForge
used in the conversion process.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/arphic
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=arphic
(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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf