On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 Clemens Niederberger submitted the
mychemistry
package.
Summary description: Creating reaction schemes with LaTeX and ChemFig
License type: nocommercial
Announcement text:
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myChemistry provides commands for typesetting complex chemical reaction schemes with LaTeX and ChemFig.
myChemistry also bundles the packages ChemFig, mhchem and chemcompounds.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mychemistry
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mychemistry
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the
dvisvgm
package.
Summary description: dvisvgm 1.0.5 has been released
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG.
The latest release 1.0.5 is a maintenance update that fixes a couple of minor
issues. Additionally, command-line option -n has been extended to choose between
two conversion variants.
For further information including a list of recent changes and pre-compiled
binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm
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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 daemon respectfully waits while i digest my lunch, and then tells
me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: ltxnew (v1.3)
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew
> Summary description: Provides the
ew
enew and provide
> prefixes for checking definitions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> chardef and mathchardef were missing :
>
ewchardef
enewchardef providechardef
>
ewmathchardef
enewmathchardef providemathchardef
>
> now work properly, as well as
ewglobalmathchardef etc.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ltxnew.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon, again:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: apa6e
> Author's name: Nathaniel J. Smith
> Location on CTAN: latex/contrib/apa6e
> Summary description: Format manuscripts to APA 6th edition guidelines.
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This release adds support for formatting appendices.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new files and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/apa6e.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/latex/contrib/apa6e/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
and they keep rolling in, sighs the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: catoptions
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Location on CTAN:
> Summary description: Preserving catcodes and parsing options
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> This version 0.2 gains some efficiency in declaring futurelet
> canonical controls of/for 'other' characters. Following suggestions
> from users, it also introduces additional interfaces for declaring new
> package options.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/catoptions.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/catoptions/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Yossi Gil submitted the
bashful
package.
Summary description: Invoke bash commands from within latex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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makes it possible to execute bash scripts from within LaTeX. The
main application is in writing computer-science texts, in which you want
to make sure the programs listed in the document are executed directly
from the input.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/latex/bashful
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bashful
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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
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Pavel Farar submitted an update to the
ptserif
package.
Summary description: PT Serif font and LaTeX support.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This package contains LaTeX support for the font PT Sans.
- Added several Cyrillic letters that were missing in the encoding
files but present in the fonts (some Cyrillic letters are
not in Unicode or Adobe Glyph List).
- The encoding files have more descriptive names now.
Related package: ptsans
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ptserif
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ptserif
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Pavel Farar submitted an update to the
ptsans
package.
Summary description: PT Sans font and LaTeX support.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This package contains LaTeX support for the font PT Sans.
- Added several Cyrillic letters that were missing in the encoding
files but present in the fonts (some Cyrillic letters are
not in Unicode or Adobe Glyph List).
- The encoding files have more descriptive names now.
Related package: ptserif
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ptsans
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http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ptsans
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
my daemon tells me (with a sly smile on his face):
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: Piano diagram
> Author's name: Émile Daneault
> Location on CTAN:
> Summary description: Draws basic 2 octaves keyboard diagrams
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> I'm by no mean a TeX expert, but since it works okay I though it
> should be out there.
>
> This package adds the keyboard[1][2]..[7] command to your
> project. When used, it draws a small 2 octaves piano keyboard on your
> document, with up to 7 keys highlighted.
>
> Keys go : Co, Cso, Do, Dso, Eo, Fo, Fso, Go, Gso, Ao, Aso, Bo, Ct,
> Cst, Dt, Dst, Et, Ft, Fst, Gt, Gst, At, Ast and Bt.
>
> Suggested use :
> egin{figure}[thpb]\n> centering
> keyboard[Co][Eo][Gso][Ct][Et]
> caption{C aug chord}
> label{Chord1}
> end{figure}
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new package and made an entry
for it in the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/piano.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/piano/
The catalogue entry will first appear overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team