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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: Update: Stellenbosch thesis and other utilities - 07
Author's name: Danie Els
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/stellenbosch
Summary description: Typesetting dissertations, theses and reports of the
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The usthesis class/style files are provided to typeset reports, theses
and dissertations that conform to the requirements of the Engineering
Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch.
The class file usthesis.cls is based on the standard LaTeX book class,
while usthesis.sty is a style file to be loaded on top of the very
powerful memoir class. Both options give identical output, but the
benefit of the using memoir is that it has many additional command and
environments for formatting and processing of a document.
Usthesis is primarily concerned with the formatting of the front matter
such as the title page, abstract, etc. and a decent page layout on A4
paper. It also works together with the babel package to provide language
options to typeset documents in Afrikaans or in English.
Additional packages are provided for bibliographic matter, note
title pages, lists of symbols, as well as various graphic files for
logos.
CHANGES FROM 06:
USthesis: v4.0
a) Fix errors in report title page
b) Move all language specific commands to external files
c) Comply with University requirements
- Change declaration page
d) Update documentation
e) Fix ifpdf error in usthesis.cls
USnomencl: v1.1
a) Add UnitLine command to type lines with unit declarations
Thesis templates:
a) Change templates for new options in memoir class
b) Remove unnecessary packages
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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: pst-circ
Author's name: Herbert Voss
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ
Summary description: pst-circ is a PSTricks related package for drawing
electrical and elektronic circuits
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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this new version 1.46 has the following changes
- optional dot for the (new)ground symbol (rw)
- added dipolstyle crystal for the capacitor
please replace the files with the existing ones.
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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: fontch
Author's name: Rodrigo Medina
Location on CTAN: /macros/plain/contrib/fontch
Summary description: Macros for changing fonts and sizes in plain TeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A new version of fontch, which is compatible with the new versions of
Latin Modern fonts, is available. Fontch is package of macros for
changing fonts and sizes in plain TeX. The old version of fontch has
been moved to the obsolete directory of CTAN.
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8 encoding
Author's name: Mojca Miklavec
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Hyphenation patterns have been converted into UTF-8
and should serve as a replacement for the old patterns without any
change in functionality. The patterns should be considered upstream
replacement that will be used in TeX Live and other distrubutions
instead of loading the old files.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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* additional patterns with hyphen for Russian and Ukrainian added (UTF-8
patterns only)
* source for documentation for Bulgarian added (and improved from previous
version)
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>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: hepthesis
> Author's name: Andy Buckley
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/hepthesis
> Summary description: Latest bugfix release of thesis authoring class
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Version 1.4.2 of the hepthesis package, which provides a convenient
> class for authoring academic theses, is now released.
>
> This version is a bug fix release, which remedies issues with serif
> chapter and section headers introduced by use of the scrbook base
> class. This version also attempts to hide external style files bundled
> for convenience with the example document, since these style files
> could get accidentally picked as canonical versions of those packages
> within a texmf tree.
>
> See http://www.insectnation.org/projects/hepthesis/ and the bundled
> documentation for more details.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/hepthesis.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hepthesis
i have installed the new version of the package, and updated the
catalogue entry. thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, 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 adds the command multiframe, to be used within environment
`animateinline', which facilitates building loops around parameterized
pictures.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/animate
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Rainer Schöpf
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
isodoc
package.
The isodoc class can be used for the preparation of letters,
invoices, and, in the future, similar documents. Documents are set
up with options, thus making the class easily adaptable to user’s
wishes and extensible for other document types.
Victor Eijkhout’s NTG brief class, which implements the NEN1026
standard, was the starting point.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/isodoc
License: LPPL
Announcement Text:
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major changes of v0.5 relative to v0.4)
- norwegian translations added (thanks Sveinung Heggen)
- misplacement of text in subject-less letters corrected
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Rainer Schöpf
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 François Charette submitted the new package
polyglossia
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia
Summary description: Babel replacement for XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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THE POLYGLOSSIA PACKAGE v1.0
Modern multilingual typesetting with XeLaTeX ¦
This package for provides a complete Babel replacement for users of XeLaTeX. The
initial version includes support for 54 different languages.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia
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http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=polyglossia
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Rainer Schöpf
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 François Charette submitted an update to the
bidi
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/bidi
Summary description: Support for bidirectional typesetting with XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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THE BIDI PACKAGE v0.3
This package provides a convenient interface for typesetting
bidirectional texts with XeLaTeX.
This version adds support for tabular environments and captions and brings
several other improvements and bugfixes. (Right-to-left tables with the array
package are not yet supported.)
The code for alphabetic numerals has been moved to the relevant
language definition files of the new polyglossia package.
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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: pdftex-1.40.8
Author's name: Han The Thanh
Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex
Summary description: A new stable release of pdftex
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The pdfTeX team announces the release of a new stable version:
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pdfTeX 1.40.8
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This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.8, an extended version of TeX that
can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX
typesetting with the help of PDF.
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Main changes of pdfTeX 1.40.8
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- Incorporated synctex
- Incorporated the new version of TeX: 3.1415926
- The pool file is now compiled in
- some bugfixes
For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS
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pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
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For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look
at http://www.pdftex.org/README
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You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your
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If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org --
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documentation.
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