On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, François Charette submitted an update to the
polyglossia
package.
Summary description: Modern multilingual typesetting with XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This version fixes numerous bugs and brings several
enhancements.
NB: The next version (1.2), currently in development, will
bring a new simplified setup interface for writing
gloss-*.ldf files (see
http://github.com/fc7/polyglossia/tree/1.2/ for the current
development tree) and support for more languages.
- Bugfix for French: explicit spaces before/after double
punctuation
signs are now replaced by the appropriate non-breaking spaces,
as in Babel.
- Bugfix for font switching mechanism within Latin script
(pending a complete re-implementation in v1.2):
the font shape and series are no longer reset when
switching language.
- New macros for non-Western decimal digits
(instead of fontmappings)
- New gloss files for Asturian, Lithuanian and Urdu
- hijrical.sty is now locale-aware: hijritoday is
formatted differently in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Turkish
and Bahasa Indonesia.
- Enable babelshorthands for Dutch
- Add missing macro allowhyphens
- Add global option babelshorthands
- Support Catalan geminated l
- Bugfix when declaring more than one pkg option
- Add missing requirement makecmds
- Bugfix for smallcaps in captions
- Typo for ccname in Hebrew
- Add option numerals to gloss-russian.ldf
- Bugfix for Russian alph
- Provide newXeTeXintercharclass when undefined
- Remove superfluous level of {} in def of markright
- Bugfix for datecatalan
- Change hyphenmins for Sanskrit
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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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
after its long slumber, the upload daemon awakes and says:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: combine
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/combine
> Summary description: bug fix update
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Bug fix for the combnat package in the combine class bundle, thanks to Nicola
> Talbot.
>
> This update advances all version numbers of derived files of
> combine.dtx to v0.7 to decrease the chance that I'll make a
> book-keeping mistake with five different version numbers (and dates)
> in the same source file. (Not that I think anyone will be worried by
> this happening one way or the other.)
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/combine.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/combine/
the catalogue entry will change overnight. a bit.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Thanks again,
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: eukleides
Version number: 1.5.3
Author's name: Christian Obrecht
Location on CTAN: /support/eukleides
Summary description: A geometry drawing system
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Keyword localization in German and some example scripts were
added. Some minor bugs were corrected as well.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/eukleides
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/eukleides
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This should within a day be at your local mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: standalone
Version number: v0.1
Author's name: Martin Scharrer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/standalone/
Summary description: New class and package 'standalone' to compile TeX pictures
standalone or as part of a main document.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A class and package is provided which allows TeX pictures or
other TeX code to be compiled standalone or as part of a main document.
Special support for pictures with beamer overlays is also
provided.
The package is used in the main document and skips extra preambles in sub-files.
The class can be used simplify the preamble in sub-files. By
default the 'preview' package is used to only display the
code without margins.
The behaviour in standalone mode can be adjusted using a
configuration file 'standalone.cfg' be redefining the
'standalone' environment.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/standalone/
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http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/standalone
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This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: hyph-utf8
Version number: 2010.03.21
Author's name: Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer
Location on CTAN: /language/hyph-utf8/
Summary description: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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- additional patterns in Sanskript (Yves Codet)
- added Turkmen patterns (Nazar Annagurban)
- added 11 Indic patterns: Assamese, Bengali, Guajrati, Hindi, Assamese, Malayalam,
Marathi, Oriya, Panjabi, Tamil, Telugu (Santhosh Thottingal and Kevin & Siji)
- some changes in Tamil are expected to be released soon
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyph-utf8/
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This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint MIchael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: paresse
Version number: 3
Author's name: Le TeXnicien de surface
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/paresse/
Summary description: paresse enables to obtain $alpha$ and such with §a and so on...
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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as a consequence of a very kind mail of Claudio Beccari,
I've decided to enable the user to choose between to
`encoding' for greek alphabet and therefore paresse has two
new mutually exclusive options: `legacy' (default, same as
preceding version) and `Levi' to use Sylvio Levi's greek
encoding.
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 François Charette submitted an updat to the
biber
package.
Summary description: A BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex
License type: artistic
Announcement text:
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This release occurs in sync with biblatex 0.9a and will not
work with earlier versions!
See the accompanying Changes file for details on this release.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/biber
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
Philipp Lehman wrote:
> I've uploaded biblatex.tar.gz and biblatex.tds.zip to the incoming
> directory of the UK node. This is an update for
> macros/latex/exptl/biblatex. Please purge the old files, install the
> new ones, and announce the upload as usual.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> RELEASE NOTES/CHANGES
>
> See the file RELEASE for release notes and the changelog in
> biblatex.pdf for the full list of changes.
i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/biblatex.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Turkmen definition language for Babel
Version number: 0.1
Author's name: Nazar Annagurban
Summary description: Turkmen definition file for Babel.
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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Turkmen definition file for Babel.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/turkmen
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This update should within a day be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: biblatex-chicago-notes-df
Version number: 0.9
Author's name: David Fussner
Summary description: Chicago notes + bibliography style files for biblatex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This release is for use only with version 0.9 of biblatex.
It offers, for the first time, internationalization support,
as well as a new package option for producing annotated
bibliographies. Please see the RELEASE file for
instructions on how to update your .bib files to work with
this new version, which has introduced some
incompatibilities with previous releases. The docs in
biblatex-chicago-notes-df.pdf, contain, as ever, all the
details.
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