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Experimental CTAN Tree: commercial/
by CTAN Announcements 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

The CTAN team has, over the years, had requests to hold sample packages from, or limited-use versions of, commercial products. Because these may be of interest to our visitors, we have decided to try providing such a facility. We will be creating a new tree commercial/ in the near future. Commercial suppliers of TeX-related material will be welcome to make submissions for such a tree via our usual upload mechanism. We expect to eventually migrate all of the shareware that we hold to this tree, as time permits. We are aware of potential pitfalls arising from this expansion, so we wish to note two cautions. (1) We cannot operate as a sales site. In particular, we are unable under any circumstances to take money for this service. (2) All Internet users are aware of the explosion of programs that steal from users, whether by stealing personal information, or credit card numbers, or passwords, or by stealing the user's system resources. One reservation that we have is that a commercial/ tree would carry with it a greater potential for us to inadvertently add to this explosion. Therefore, we retain the right to reject any materials that we judge to be malware, or to remove it from the archive when it is reported to us. Malware includes software containing viruses or trojans. It also includes spyware, i.e., software components that transmit personal or system information without knowledge or approval of the user. Judgement as to what software falls into this category will be at the sole discretion of the CTAN team. Jim Hefferon for the CTAN team comments to: ctan (at) dante.de

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CTAN update: babelbib
by CTAN Announcements 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Harald Harders submitted an update to the babelbib package. License: LPPL Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib > >From the README: > > This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in > cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: Each citation > may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can > be typeset in a language chosen by the user. The current version > supports Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, > German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. > In addition, the package supports commands to change the typography > of the bibliographies. > Many of the standard and extended bibliography styles are available. > > > ChangeLog: > > 2005/11/05 1.17 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) > - Change the language in alpha-numerical bib items. > - Handle numerical edition numbers. > > 2005/10/31 1.16 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) > - Allow to alter space between two abbreviated forenames. > > The change of the language in alpha-numerical bib items (babalpha) will > enable the use of non-latin alphabets in bibliographies (greek, cyrillic) > when they will be available. > > Numerical edition numbers are only handled by German 3. Auflage and > English 3rd edition right now. Please give me advice for other languages > how to translate edition = 3 to an ordinal number. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New class on CTAN: hepthesis
by CTAN Announcements 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Andy Buckley writes (by the medium of the cambridge upload script): > Name of contribution: hepthesis > Author's name: Andy Buckley > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/hepthesis > Summary description: LaTeX class for typesetting masters and PhD theses > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > hepthesis is a LaTeX class for typesetting large academic reports, > in particular PhD theses. It was originally developed for > typesetting the author's high-energy physics PhD thesis and includes > some features specifically tailored to such an application. In > particular, hepthesis offers: > > * Attractive semantic environments for various rubrik sections; > * Extensive options for draft production, screen viewing and binding-ready output; > * Helpful extensions of existing environments, including equation and tabular; > * Support for quotations at the start of the thesis and each chapter; > * And more :) > > This is the first public release of hepthesis after approximately > two years of development and recent user testing. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload: i've installed it, and updated the catalogue. copies should be at the other two ctan sites within a few hours, and at mirror sites somewhat later. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: The caption package v3.0h
by CTAN Announcements 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments License type: lppl Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table and cooperates with many other packages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is mainly a bugfix release of the caption package 3.0, so for example using it together with the french(le) package or endnotes package should not result in errors anymore. Furthermore the code documentation is finally complete now. Additionally the compatibility to the caption2 package was increased, so migrating simply means replacing caption2 by caption in most cases. (See changelog for details.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: lineno v4.41 and ednotes
by CTAN Announcements 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Uwe Lück submitted updates to the lineno and ednotes packages. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/lineno /macros/latex/contrib/ednotes Summary description: update (bug fix) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Loadable after amsmath.sty. 2. Undid some nonsensical change of documentation. 3. Better vertical spacing when a math display or a list meets a heading; or when a paragraph ends together with a column. (This had been announced 2005/10/28 vor lineno.sty v4.4, yet I failed to upload the latter. v4.4 was attached at least to some e-mails from me.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: lineno.sty v4.4 (revised announcement; supporting ednotes.sty for criticial editions)
by CTAN Announcements 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Uwe Lück submitted a revised announcement for lineno. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Better vertical spacing when a math display or a list meets a heading; or when a paragraph ends together with a column. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: LM fonts 0.99.3
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the lm fonts package. > Package: Latin Modern fonts > Authors: JNSteam > License: GUST Font Source License > Location on CTAN: fonts/lm > > The Latin Modern family of fonts is based on the Computer Modern fonts > in the PostScript Type 1 format, released into public domain by the > American Mathematical Society. The fonts, as compared to the CM family, > contain a lot of additional characters, mainly accented ones, but not only. > The current distribution contains: > Latin Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 and OpenType formats, > source files for MetaType1 plus all requisites for using the fonts with > TeX/pdfTeX; there is one set of PostScript fonts and five sets of TeX Font > Metric files, corresponding to: > -- EC (Cork) encoding (ec-*.tfm), > -- QX encoding (qx-*.tfm), > -- TeX'n'ANSI aka LY1 encoding (texnansi-*.tfm), > -- T5 (Vietnamese) encoding (t5-*.tfm), > -- Text Companion for EC fonts aka TS1 (ts1-*.tfm). > LaTeX *.sty and *.fd files were also added plus a few test files. > > Most important recent changes: > We fixed some annoying bugs (e.g., improper positioning of some accents > in our lovely ;-) lmtlc10 and discrepancies between widths of oldstyle > and normal digits in several fonts) and added a ``dense'' or Euro Letter > encoding on Hans' demand. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Updates to custom-bib collection
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Patrick Daly submitted an update to the custom-bib collection. Custom-bib is a package generating customized BibTeX bibliography styles from a generic file using docstrip. Includes support for the Harvard style. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib Summary description: Customizing bibtex style files License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some additions to the merlin.mbs (making version 4.14) and some corrections to the dansk.mbs language file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: MnSymbol 1.3
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Achim Blumensath submitted an update to the mnsymbol package. Location on CTAN: fonts/mnSymbol Summary description: math symbol font for MinionPro License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MnSymbol is a symbol font designed to be used in conjunction with Adobe MinionPro. This is the first stable release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pdf-trans 2.2
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted version 2.2 of the pdf-trans package. Pdf-trans is a set of macros for various transformations of TeX boxes (based on plain and pdfeTeX primitives). It was initially inspired by trans.tex, remade to work with pdfTeX. Author: Pawe{l} Jackowski License: Public Domain Location on CTAN: macros/generic/pdf-trans/ News: Version 2.2 was reworked and added: - boxtrans vs cboxtrans switches - oxext* stuff; yet another scaling approach. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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