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CTAN update: datatool
by CTAN Announcements 05 Mar '25

05 Mar '25

Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the datatool package. Version: 3.0 2025-03-03 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: Tools to load and manipulate data Announcement text: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Major rewrite. Rollback to v2.32 available if there are any issues. Key features: - new 'math' package options: math=lua and math=l3fp. If not specified, the defaults are now math=lua for LuaLaTeX and math=l3fp otherwise. The older options are still supported, but the newer ones are better and support scientific notation. - parsed formatted numbers and currency have their values embedded within the control sequence variable for easy access without having to reparse. Note that this affects expansion, which may cause a difference from v2.32. For example: \DTLparse\result{\$12,345.67} Original text: \result. Data type: \DTLgetDataTypeName{\DTLdatumtype{\result}}. Numeric value: \DTLdatumvalue{\result}. Currency symbol: \DTLdatumcurrency{\result}. In this case, \result will only expand as far as the original text. To fully expand use \DTLusedatum{\result}. - For databases that contain numeric values that will be used in calculations (including plotting), use \DTLsetup{store-datum} (before creating the database) to embed the numeric information within the database entries. This should improve build time but may impair fast data lookup of unique strings. - New multi-purpose \DTLaction command with key=value interface that may be used instead of the alternative commands with long names. - New sort functions that internally use \seq_sort:Nn for faster sorting. The old sort commands still work but the newer ones are more efficient. Note: the glossaries package uses the datatool-base sorting commands for \printnoidxglossary. If you are using that command you may notice a difference. Make sure you have at least glossaries v4.56 to take advantage of the improved sorting and new localisation support. - Localisation support has been added for orthography (alphabet order for word sorting) and for numeric parsing (currency symbols, number group separator and decimal character). Support for numeric parsing and currency is supplied by datatool-regions which needs to be installed separately. Support for orthography is supplied by the applicable language module, which needs to be installed separately. Currently only datatool-english is available. For example (assuming datatool v3.0, datatool-regions and datatool-english are all installed): \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setromanfont{Noto Serif} \usepackage[locales={en-BE,ang-Latn}]{datatool-base} \newcommand{\wordlist}{ýþung, eásteweard, áǽðan, Œthelwald, þorn, æsċ, eaþ-fynde, ðæt, Æðelþryð, aardvark, zebra, ƿēana, Oswine} \begin{document} Currency: \DTLdecimaltocurrency{1234.56}{\result}\result. \DTLenLocaleHook \DTLsortwordlist{\wordlist}{\DTLsortletterhandler} Sorted list: \DTLformatlist{\wordlist}. \DTLangLatnLocaleHook \DTLsortwordlist{\wordlist}{\DTLsortletterhandler} Sorted list: \DTLformatlist{\wordlist}. \DTLresetRegion \DTLresetLanguage Currency: \DTLdecimaltocurrency{1234.56}{\result}\result. \DTLsortwordlist{\wordlist}{\DTLsortletterhandler} Sorted list: \DTLformatlist{\wordlist}. \end{document} The result is: Currency: 1.234,56€. Sorted list: aardvark, Æðelþryð, æsċ, áǽðan, ðæt, eásteweard, eaþ-fynde, Œthelwald, Oswine, þorn, ƿēana, ýþung and zebra. Sorted list: aardvark, áǽðan, eásteweard, eaþ-fynde, Œthelwald, Oswine, ýþung, zebra, ƿēana, ðæt, æsċ, Æðelþryð ⁊ þorn. Currency: ¤1,234.56. Sorted list: aardvark, eaþ-fynde, eásteweard, Oswine, zebra, áǽðan, æsċ, Æðelþryð, ðæt, ýþung, þorn, Œthelwald & ƿēana. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/datatool More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/datatool -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .

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New on CTAN: tikzcalendarnotes
by CTAN Announcements 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

Alceu Frigeri submitted the tikzcalendarnotes package. Version number: 1.0 2025-03-03 License type: lppl1.3c gpl3+ Summary description: Highlighting, Marking and Annotating dates in a TikZ calendar in a systematic way Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package offers a TikZ calendar's arrangement and provides a set of commands to highlight, mark and annotate dates. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikzcalendarnotes More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/tikzcalendarnotes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs

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CTAN update: biblatex-gb7714-2015
by CTAN Announcements 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

Hu Zhenzhen submitted an update to the biblatex-gb7714-2015 package. Version: 1.1t 2025-03-03 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: A BibLaTeX implementation of the GBT7714-2015 bibliography style for Chinese users Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. add toggle gbNoAfPcSpace to delete the automatically added space after parencite for numeric style. 2. revise the macro modifydate to make it outputs in the order of eventdate, enddate, and date. 3. revise the doc and readme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-gb7714-2015 The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-gb7… ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs

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CTAN update: fontscale
by CTAN Announcements 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

Oliver Beery submitted an update to the fontscale package. Version: 4.0.0 2025-03-02 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: A flexible interface for setting font sizes Announcement text: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## [v4.0.0] - 2025-03-02 ### Added - `fontscale` version 3 can be used by declaring `\usepackage{fontscale}[=v3]`. - `fontscale-v3.sty` ### Removed - The package keys and commands that take a dimen or skip expression as a value or argument no longer append a default unit of `pt` and remove extra trailing tokens, if any. (This feature had relied on exploiting `expl3` implementation details.) ### Changed - `fontscale` is no longer compatible with the `scalefnt` package. - The keys `<font size command>` are now shortcuts for the keys `<font size command>/size`. (The previous functionality no longer makes syntactic sense given the removal of default unit support.) - Renamed the document commands using the recommended all-lowercase convention: - `\CurrentFontStep` to `\currentfontstep` - `\CurrentFontScale` to `\currentfontscale` - `\CurrentFontSize` to `\currentfontsize` - `\CurrentFontBaselineskip` to `\currentfontbaselineskip` - `\SetFontStep` to `\setfontstep` - `\SetFontScale` to `\setfontscale` - `\SetFontSize` to `\setfontsize` - `\ScaleFont` to `\scalefont` - `\SetFontSizeBaselineskip` to `\setfontsizebaselineskip` - `\SetFontBaselineskip` to `\setfontbaselineskip` - `\PrintFontSizeParameters` to `\printfontsizeparameters` - `\PrintAllFontSizeParameters` to `\printallfontsizeparameters` - `\PrintSampleText` to `\printsampletext` - `\PrintFontSizeCommand` to `\printfontsizecommand` -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fontscale More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontscale -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .

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CTAN update: bytefield
by CTAN Announcements 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

Scott Pakin submitted an update to the bytefield package. Version: 2.9 License: lppl1.3a Summary description: Create illustrations for network protocol specifications Announcement text: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The bytefield package helps the user create illustrations for network protocol specifications and anything else that utilizes fields of data. These illustrations show how the bits and bytes are laid out in a packet, register, or memory. Version 2.9 updates bytefield for compatibility with newer versions of LaTeX. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/bytefield More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/bytefield -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .

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New on CTAN: datatool-english
by CTAN Announcements 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

Nicola Talbot submitted the datatool-english package. Version: 1.0 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: English language support for datatool.sty v3.0+ Announcement text: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The datatool-english bundle provides the English ldf files for the datatool package (v3.0+). The *.ldf files should all be placed on TeX's path. These files don't require any explicit loading. They will automatically be input by datatool-base.sty (or relevant supplementary package) if they are found and required by the tracklang localisation settings. See the datatool v3.0+ manual for further details. The English files provide encoding support for UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1). Any other encoding will be treated as US-ASCII. This bundle also includes limited support for Old English (Anglo-Saxon) mainly to provide an example for a language that has multiple scripts (in this case, Latin and Runic) or for a language that has an extended Latin or non-Latin script. The language codes are ang-Latn for Anglo-Saxon Latin Script and ang-Runr for Anglo-Saxon Runic Script. There's only support for UTF-8 with the Anglo-Saxon files. **This is being released in advance of the upcoming datatool v3.0 release.** These files will be ignored by existing versions of datatool. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/datatool-english More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/datatool-english -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .

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CTAN update: LiteTable
by CTAN Announcements 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

Mingyu Xia submitted an update to the LiteTable package. Version: 3.3B 2025-03-02 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: Class schedules with colorful course blocks Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Updated the manuals. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/litetable The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/litetable/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs

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New on CTAN: outoruby
by CTAN Announcements 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

kkotsi submitted the outoruby package. Version: 0.0.0 2025-03-02 License: gpl3 Summary description: Ruby with line break support for Japanese text Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the initial release of a new Japanese ruby package with line break support. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/outoruby The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/outoruby/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs

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CTAN update: NoteBeamer
by CTAN Announcements 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

Mingyu Xia submitted an update to the NoteBeamer package. Version: 4.1C 2025-03-02 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: A template for printing presentations on notepaper Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Updated the manual. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/notebeamer The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/notebeamer/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs

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New on CTAN: datatool-regions
by CTAN Announcements 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

Nicola Talbot submitted the datatool-regions package. Version: 1.0 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: Region (Numeric) Support for datatool v3.0+ Announcement text: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The datatool-regions bundle provides the language-independent region ldf files for the datatool package (v3.0+). The *.ldf files should all be placed on TeX's path. These files don't require any explicit loading. They will automatically be input by datatool-base.sty (or relevant supplementary package) if they are found and required by the tracklang localisation settings. See the datatool v3.0+ manual for further details. The region files deal with defining (if applicable) the currency symbol and switching to the region's currency in the region's hook. Region files may additionally (if not dependent on the language) set the number group and decimal characters (for formatting and parsing), and provide functions for parsing numeric dates and times. **This is being released in advance of the upcoming datatool v3.0 release.** These files will be ignored by existing versions of datatool. Only a limited number of regions are currently included. Additional regions can be added via pull request on GitHub https://github.com/nlct/datatool-regions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/datatool-regions More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/datatool-regions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .

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