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UK TeX FAQ, version 3.19d
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

i continue to make small updates of the faq, while pondering a new web interface. today's release (some details below) contains a number of minor improvements and extensions, and some corrections. the web interface (such as it is) remains at http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq Changes in version 3.19d This file lists changes since its most recent release (version 3.19c). New answers: +Label plaintex: explains writing in tex, was part of Label whattex Relabelled answers: <none> Revised answers: +Label codelist: mention the minted package +Label docs: single reference to epslatex (via catalogue) +Label etex: add ctan link +Label filesused: rewrite to clarify the issue with input +Label luatex: now version 0.60.0 +Label fonts-pln: replace some complete gibberish (undoing mis-edits, I guess) +Label parallel: mention the pdfcolparcolumns package +Label seccntfmt: remove superfluous expandafter in programming, tidy text +Label tabcellalign: editorial on PBS macro discussion +Label texfuture: rehashed, in light of today's situation +Label whattex: simplified by removal of material for Label plaintex Deleted answers: <none> Web interface: Extension of links to catalogue, to packages distributed as part of... Abbreviate header text (omitting long list of helpers -- which will ultimately be available in a separate file online) Convert alphabetic SGML entities to use numeric equivalents (stragglers are bound to show up, but most have gone) Users may view the faq's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/uk-tex-faq.html or browse the faq directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: seuthesis
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: seuthesis Version number: 1.3.0 Author's name: Xu, Yuan Summary description: The LaTeX template for thesis of Southeast University License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The LaTeX template for thesis of Southeast University, Nanjing China ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/seuthesis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/seuthesis (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN has a new package: pgf-umlsd
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .................................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pgf-umlsd Version number: 0.5 Author's name: Xu, Yuan Summary description: Some LaTeX macros for UML Sequence Diagrams. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some LaTeX macros for UML Sequence Diagrams. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgf-umlsd . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgf-umlsd (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN Update: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the softmaker-freefont package. Summary description: Support files for SoftMaker free fonts available at www.freefont.de License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In June 2009 www.freefont.de offered a beautiful handwriting font for free download: The Softmaker Stone Handwriting. As handwriting fonts are a quite limited resource in the LaTeX world, i decided to create support files for this beautiful font. Therefore, Stone Handwriting will be the starting point for the softmaker-freefont bundle. Other fonts will be included in future. Supported fonts at the moment: Baskerville-Nova (regular + bold + italic + bold italic), Canossa (regular + bold + light), Congress (regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold), Jugendstil, Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting, Sunset (regular + bold) License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) New in v1.10: - added support for the font family Canossa (regular + bold + light + faked slanted + faked small caps) Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (April 2010) and can be downloaded for free (at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de Later you can buy it from Softmaker - added smfflseries.sty (provides the commands extl and lseries for light fonts) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/softmaker-freefont/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=softmaker-freefont (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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

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CTAN Update: nicetext
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the nicetext package. Summary description: arseneau.pdf adds description of optional.sty, corrections License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Donald Arseneau's `optional.sty' is added as an example of typesetting LaTeX-quality documentation of third-party .txt-type package documentation (unmodified) with `makedoc' and `niceverb''s auto mode plus (new) a function of `wiki.sty' from the bundle, cf. abstract of `arseneau.pdf' and `arseneau.tex' * correction of `niceverb''s AutoCmdInput * documentation corrections ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nicetext/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=nicetext (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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

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CTAN has a new pacakge: newverbs
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

This should appear at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: newverbs Version number: v1.0 Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/newverbs Summary description: New package to define variants of verb incl. short verb versions. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows the definition of verb variants which add TeX code before and after the verbatim text (e.g. quotes or surrounding fbox{}). When used together with the 'shortvrb' package it allows the definition of short verbatim characters which use this variants instead of the normal verb. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/newverbs . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/newverbs (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN update: texlipse
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: TeXlipse Version number: 1.4.0 Author's name: Boris von Loesch Location on CTAN: /support/texlipse Summary description: New version of TeXlipse License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.4.0 of TeXlipse adds check as you type spell checking support for different languages and a parser for aux files to detect labels that in previous version triggers warnings and to better decicide when to run BibTeX. Furthermore it adds a lot of other minor improvements. Many bugs are fixed. More details on the changes: http://sourceforge.net/projects/texlipse/files/texlipse%20plugin/1.4.0/Chan… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/texlipse . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/texlipse (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN has a new package: iftex
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: iftex Version number: 0.1 Author's name: Vafa Khalighi Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/iftex Summary description: Am I running under PDFTeX, or XeTeX, or LuaTeX? License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This very simple package, for both Plain TeX and LaTeX, defines the ifPDFTeX, ifXeTeX, and ifLuaTeX boolean for testing whether PDFTeX, or XeTeX, or LuaTeX is being used for typesetting. Also provides the RequirePDFTeX, RequireXeTeX, and RequireLuaTeX command which throws an error if PDFTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX (respectively) is not the engine in use. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/iftex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/iftex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN Update: adrconv
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 Axel Kielhorn submitted an update to the adrconv package. Summary description: BibTeX styles to implement an address database. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release contains the modifications I made to adrconv over the last 4 years. New features: - Removed email.bst and added email, notes, and organization to the fields exported by adrconv.bst. Email and Notes are printed by adrdir.tex. - Renamed birthday.bst to adrbirthday.bst to avoid a collision with directory.cls - Added support for a pdfTeX only workflow, no DVIDVI is needed, supplied files for automatic imposition. - Added a quick and dirty solution to export data from Addressbook.app via a Pages file and some vi commands. The archive contains a Pages file useable with iWork08 or iWork09 and a Vim script, both should go to the doc directory in TL. When the dtx is expanded, adrmontage[12].tex should go to the doc directory as well, these are templates that need modification by the user. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/adrconv . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=adrconv (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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

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CTAN Update: biblatex-philosophy
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 Ivan Valbusa submitted an update to the biblatex-philosophy package. License type: lppl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-philoso… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-philosophy (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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

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CTAN Update: tabvar
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 Daniel Flipo submitted an update to the tabvar package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release fixes a bug of the arre{} command: the depth of the vertical rule was wrong in some cases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tabvar/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tabvar (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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

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CTAN has a new package: luatex
by CTAN Announcements 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: LuaTeX Version number: 0.60 Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: /systems/luatex Summary description: LuaTeX beta 0.60.0 release License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This luatex release starts a new chain of stable betas, and will be the version included in TeXLive 2010. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/luatex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luatex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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New CTAN package: librarian
by CTAN Announcements 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

quoth the daemon on thursday (and i forgot it and deleted the mail, and have only just been reminded and restored the mail from archive): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: librarian > Author's name: Paul Isambert > Location on CTAN: macros/generic/librarian > Summary description: Tools to create bibliographies in TeX. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The librarian package extracts information in bib files, makes it > available in the current document, and sorts lists of entries > according to that information and the user's specifications. Citation > and bibliography styles can then be written directly in TeX, without > any use of BibTeX. Creating references thus depends entirely on the > user's skill in TeX. > > The package works with all formats using plain TeX's basic syntactic > sugar; the distribution includes a third-party file for ConTeXt and a > style file for LaTeX. > > As an example of use, an Author (Year) style is given in a separate > file and explained in the documentation. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i installed the package (on thursday) and created the catalogue entry then too. thanks to Paul for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/librarian.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/librarian/ and of course, given the delay, the catalogue entry is now stable. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: metapost
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

This should be at your local mirror by tomorrow. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Metapost Version number: 1.211 Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/base Summary description: bug fix release License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Metapost 1.211 fixes a list of bugs found in the 1.20X release series, and is the version that will appear on TeXLive 2010. Detailed descriptions of the bugs and their fixes can be found in the file CHANGES. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/base . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/metapost (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN Update: epspdf & epspdf-extra
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 Siep Kroonenberg submitted updates to the epspdf and epspdf-etra packages. Summary description: Converter for PostScript, EPS and PDF with optional GUI. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The GUI frontend has been rewritten in Tcl/Tk. As a consequence, the GUI works again under Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Various minor improvements and bug fixes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/epspdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=epspdf (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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

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CTAN Update: pst-circ
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 Herbert Voß submitted an update to the pst-circ package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pst-circ is a PSTricks related package for drawing electrical and electronic circuits 1.54 2010-03-29 - fix bug in Transformer - allow any type of coordinates in Transformer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pst-circ (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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 . _______________________________________________ Ctan mailing list Ctan(a)dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: keycommand
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 Florent Chervet submitted an update to the keycommand package. Summary description: key-value interface for commands and environments in LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package completely redesigned Added new feature in particular the + form of ewkeycommand ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/keycommand . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=keycommand (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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 . _______________________________________________ Ctan mailing list Ctan(a)dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: todo
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: todo Version number: 2.4142 Author's name: Federico Garcia Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/todo/ Summary description: Utilities for compiling a list of to-do items in a document. Version 2.4142 fixes bugs and adds extra tools. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The todo package, version 2.4142 todo provides macros for users to insert reminders in their documents for tasks 'to do', which will then be shown as a list at the end of the document. Version 2.4142 fixes bugs and adds extra functionality (quiet todos, verbose todos, a new environment for full flexibility, and a done command to mark todos as 'done'). By Federico Garcia, 2002 (original) and 2010 (2.4142). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/todo/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/todo (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN update: pgfplots
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pgfplots Version number: 1.3.1 Author's name: Christian Feuersänger Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots/ Summary description: pgfplots - Create normal/logarithmic plots in two and three dimensions for LaTeX. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.3.1 is a bugfix release containing - improved parametric plots with gnuplot - improved normalsize, small and footnotesize scale styles and added tiny - a lot of bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgfplots (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN has a new package: ocgtools
by CTAN Announcements 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

This should reach your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: OCGtools package Version number: 0.5 Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ocgtools Summary description: OCGtools package allows to manipulate OCG layers in PDF presentations, namely hide and reveal parts of document by clicking active links or buttons. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package ocgtools is designed to insert OGC (Optional Group Content, known as layers) into PDF presentations. From the user's point of view, the package allows to insert in an comfortable way any TeX material into separate layers in PDF document and also insert links which toggle these layers on and off. Parts of the PDF document like formatted text, tables, math formulas or graphics can be turned to visible or invisible state by clicking active links or buttons. Similar packages are cooltooltips, pdfcomment, AcroTeX and fancytooltips. See the ocgtools package documentation for differences between ocgtools and the other packages. The package is distributed with examples build from one source using several presentation packages (beamer, web, pdfscreen). All necessary files are on Texlive 2009. Allmost all necessary files are on CTAN, the file ocg.sty is at http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf/tex/latex/asymptote/ocg.s… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ocgtools . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ocgtools (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN update: nicetext
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: nicetext bundle Version number: release 0.4 Author's name: Uwe Lück Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nicetext Summary description: txt to TeX processing of third-party package documentations: Step 2 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New with release 0.4: * Additionally to the `%% ' commenting style (allowing commenting out) the usual `% ' commenting style is supported -- applied to packages by Donald Arseneau, see abstract in `arseneau.pdf'. * Extended formatting of Harald Harder's `substr.sty' through specific preprocessing replacements (MakeDocCorrectHook) -- see abstract in `substr.pdf'. * Setup of MakeDocCorrectHook (txt to TeX) easier with SetPatternCodes, ResetPatternCodes, SetCorrectHookJob, SetCorrectHookJobLast ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nicetext . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/nicetext (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN update: biblatex-science
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

here we go again... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-science > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Author's email: joseph.wright(a)morningstar2.co.uk > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-science > Summary description: biblatex style for Science > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.9a: > - Fix for misc field > - Move TDS location to tex/latex/biblatex-science (cf. other biblatex contributions) thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-science.ht… > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac/tex-archive/macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-science and of course the web catalogue entry will change in the course of tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: biblatex-nature
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

they're coming in thick and fast (so fast i'm not keeping up!) > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-nature > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-nature > Summary description: biblatex style for Nature > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.9a: > - Fix for misc field > - Move TDS location to tex/latex/biblatex-nature (cf. other biblatex contributions) i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository; thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-nature.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-nat… and of course, the web catalogue entry will change a bit overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: biblatex-chem
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

that there daemon's running wild: ctan-upload(a)cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-chem > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem > Summary description: biblatex styles for chemistry > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.9b: > - Fix for misc field > - Move TDS location to tex/latex/biblatex-chem (cf. other biblatex contributions) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the files, and updated the catalogue repository; thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-chem.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem and of course, the catalogue entry will change overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xpackages
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

it's grinding me down: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xpackages > Author's name: LaTeX3 Project > Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xpackages > Summary description: High-level LaTeX3 concepts > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The xpackages bundle: high-Level LaTeX3 concepts > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > The xpackages are experimental, high-level parts of LaTeX3. They > are designed to provide a link between the programming system > (expl3) and the user. Each xpackage is focussed in a different > area, for example creating document commands (xparse), > producing flexible formatting functions (xtemplate), etc. > > At present, the xpackages are designed to be loaded on top > of LaTeX2e: > > usepackage{xparse} > usepackage{xtemplate} > > In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code. > This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a > stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed. > > To use the xpackages, you will need to have the expl3 package > available. This provides the LaTeX3 coding environment on which > the xpackages are built. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This release (SVN 1881) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > This release features a new versions of the template package, > xtemplate, which revises the idea of a template and brings in > the idea of a self-documenting template. The new templates > are not compatible with those created using the older > template package, which is depreciated. The documentation > covers the full detail of the new approach, which we hope makes > the template concept easier to follow and more useful for > designers. > > In the xparse module, the nesting of D arguments has been > revised so that is is more robust. > > This release also keeps the xpackages up to date with changes > in expl3. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The LaTeX3 Project > ---------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i have installed it and updated the catalogue repository. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xpackages.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xpackages the perceptive will spot the tiny change in the catalogue entry, overnight. if they bother to look. it's not very exciting. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: expl3
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

that daemon's trying to grind me down: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: expl3 > Author's name: LaTeX3 Project > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/expl3 > Summary description: Packages supporting LaTeX3 programming conventions > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The expl3 bundle: Low-level LaTeX3 programming conventions > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > The files of the expl3 bundle provide a low-level API for TeX > programmers with special syntax conventions, completely > separating it from document level syntax. Hence, the commands > provided are not intended for use at the document level nor for > use in describing design layouts in document class files. > > This API provides the foundation on which the LaTeX3 kernel > and other advanced extensions are built. Special care has been > taken so that they can be used within a LaTeX2e context as > regular packages. > > The TeX and eTeX primitives are all given a new name according > to these conventions. However, in the main direct use of the > primitives is not required or encouraged: the expl3 modules > define an independent low-level LaTeX3 programming language. > > At present, the expl3 modules are designed to be loaded on top > of LaTeX2e: > > usepackage{expl3} > > In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code. > This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a > stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This release (SVN 1881) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > As the existing LaTeX3 code is used by more people and for more > purposes, some of the original ideas are being re-examined and > inconsistencies and bugs are being addressed. This release > reflects the consolidation process, which is of course ongoing. > > The robustness of functions has been revised, and all functions > should now be either protected or fully expandable. This is > regarded as a general pattern for LaTeX3: any function which is > not expandable should be defined using cs_set_protected:Npn, > etc. > > On variables, the definitions for l_set:Nn and related > functions now allow # tokens in token lists, for example: > > l_set:Nn l_my_tl { single~#~token! } > > We hope that this means that token registers (toks) functions > are needed for the small number of primitive token registers > and for LaTeX2e work only. Feedback on this change is very > welcome. > > The file and keyval modules have been revised to provide > only higher-level functions for general use. The lower > level functions are either renamed, removed or not documented, > and the intention is that everything will be done via the > documented functions. > > In l3msg, msg_set:nnnn, etc., now read messages with expl3 > category codes (spaces are ignored). While this requires a > little more typing we feel that the consistency it brings is > valuble. > > One area of active discussion is whether register creation > should be local or global. This release includes *experimental* > support for locally-created registers using the > <var>_new_local:N functions. Be warned that this concept is > included for discussion and may not be retained in the longer > term. > > There are a number of other minor changes, as the team are > hard at work in a number of areas. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The LaTeX3 Project > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/expl3.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/expl3 the catalogue entry will change a bit, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: The CodeDoc class.
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

my upload daemon tells me: > Name of contribution: The CodeDoc class. > Author's name: Paul Isambert > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ > Summary description: LaTeX code and documentation in LaTeX-format file. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Fixed a fatal bug in produce mode when ProduceFile was used without > optional arguments. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/codedoc.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/codedoc the web copy of the catalogue will change very slightly, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: chemstyle
by CTAN Announcements 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

that there daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: chemstyle > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle > Summary description: Schemes and style for chemistry > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.0g: > - Add warning that schemeref does not wok with XeTeX > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/chemstyle.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle and, as usual, the web copy of the catalogue will change, minutely, overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: disser
by CTAN Announcements 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .................................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: disser Version number: 1.1.5 Author's name: Stanislav Kruchinin Summary description: LaTeX classes, BibTeX styles, Makefiles and document templates for typesetting dissertations in Russian License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes in version 1.1.5 (2010-03-23): Classes and styles: + Add support for classified dissertations. + Add support for ISBN and DOI to gost705 style. + Add colorlinks option. + Add scientific consultant field. * Fix compatibility with latest versions of hyperref and oberdiek packages. Templates: + Enable colorlinks option by default. + Add examples of isbn and doi fields. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/disser . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/disser (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN update: spreadtab
by CTAN Announcements 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: spreadtab Version number: v0.3 Author's name: Christian Tellechea Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/spreadtab Summary description: Spreadsheet features for LaTeX table environments. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- spreadtab v0.3 What's new ? * macro functions gcd, lcm and scitodec * <<b5>> displays the value of the cell b5 * STautoround* fills the decimal part with 0 * bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/spreadtab . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/spreadtab (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN update: xstring
by CTAN Announcements 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: xstring Version number: 1.5d Author's name: Christian Tellechea Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xstring Summary description: String (token list) manipulation License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xstring update version v1.5d 2010/03/28 =========== Changes =========== Bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xstring . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xstring (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN has a new package: xypdf
by CTAN Announcements 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: xypdf Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Daniel Müllner Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xypdf Summary description: PDF output for the Xy-pic package License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The xypdf package improves the output quality of the Xy-pic package when PDF documents are generated. It produces generic PDF code for graphical elements like lines, curves and circles instead of approximating these elements with glyphs in special fonts as the original Xy-pic package does. The xypdf package works both with pdfLaTeX and the two-step compilation LaTeX → dvipdfm(x). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xypdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xypdf (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN update: standalone
by CTAN Announcements 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: standalone Version number: v0.3 Author's name: Martin Scharrer Summary description: Update to v0.3: Automatic sub-preamble inclusion inside the main preamble License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update brings some exciting new options for the 'standalone' package. Using these options the preamble code of the sub-files can not only be skipped but extracted into an auxiliary file (.sta) which is then loaded by the main document during the next LaTeX run. The body content of the sub-files is skipped during the first run to avoid compile errors. To avoid option clashes of loaded packages all package option can be extracted first and predefined using 'PassOptionsToPackage'. Alternatively the sub-preambles can be simply printed (without special macros added by 'standalone') into a different auxiliary file (.stp) for easy manual copy&paste into the main document. If requested a list of required packages and pgf, tikz and tikz-timing libraries can be printed avoiding duplicates. New macros: onlyifstandalone{<code>} Used to hide code from the sub-preamble code extractor. standaloneignore Can be used to ignore code before the 'documentclass' of sub-files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/standalone . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/standalone (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN has a new package: fc_arith
by CTAN Announcements 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: fc_arith Version number: 0.1a Author's name: D. P. Story Summary description: fc_arith is a LaTeX package used to create an arithmetic flash card. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fc_arith is a LaTeX package used to create an arithmetic flash card. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems are randomly generated. The flash card created by fc_arith can be customized in many ways. Design and build your own flash card using an dvips/Acrobat Distiller work flow, or a pdftex work flow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fc_arith . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fc_arith (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN update: pdfrack
by CTAN Announcements 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pdfrack Version number: 0.5 Author's name: Marc Boyer Summary description: Use psfrag with PDFLaTeX. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Add of an auto option to automaticaly convert all figures. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pdfrack . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pdfrack (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN Update: pst-dbicons
by CTAN Announcements 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Wolfgang May submitted an update to the pst-dbicons package. Summary description: Support for drawing ER diagrams License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- replaces the previous version of pst-dbicons ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-dbicons . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pst-dbicons (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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

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CTAN update: svn-prov
by CTAN Announcements 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .............................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: svn-prov Version number: v2 rev 1747 Author's name: Martin Scharrer Summary description: Update to v2 rev 1747 - Bug fix: Id parser failed in *.fd files. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This bug fix release fixes issues which appeared when used in font definition (*.fd) files (and properly in other files which are read with changed catcodes). This release also fixes an error which occurred when the Id line was not (yet) expanded by Subversion. Thanks goes to Oleg Parashchenko for reporting the issue and for providing a minimal example. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/svn-prov . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/svn-prov (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN Update: dvisvgm
by CTAN Announcements 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Summary description: dvisvgm 0.9 has been released License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. The latest version 0.9 introduces a new command-line option to compute the exact bounding boxes of each glyph instead of relying on the TFM values. This prevents clipped characters at the edges of the SVG graphic. For further information including a list of recent changes and pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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

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CTAN update: biblatex-chem
by CTAN Announcements 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

the good old daemon stands there wagging his tail: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-chem > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem > Summary description: biblatex styles for chemistry > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.9a: > - Added doi option to force DOI inlcusion i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-chem.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-ch… the catalogue entry on the web will change (very slightly) overnight. blink, and you'll miss it. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: nicetext
by CTAN Announcements 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the nicetext package. Summary description: `makedoc' + `niceverb' - an alternative documentation system for LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The `nicetext' bundle offers minimal markup syntax for restricted kinds of text: There should not be much more characters typed than printed! -- mainly: quick documentation of (smaller) LaTeX packages -- achieved by active characters and preprocessing similar to `docstrip' (opposite direction however, incl. some txt to TeX). New with release 0.3: * `substr.tex' should typeset LaTeX quality documentation from next available (on your install) substry.sty's ASCII/UTF-8 input (works with me) -- first application of `niceverb''s auto mode and `makedoc.sty' to a third-party package! * `makedoc' simplified: single MakeInputJobDoc[<in>][<out>]{<header>}{<parser>} generates a documentation file from the package file and typesets it immediately (kind of DocInput equivalent) -- see `Using makedoc the simplest way' in `makedoc.pdf' * `|...|' from `niceverb' typesets an inline frame box for setting-off a command description, modifiable by hooks (e.g., colorbox) * `niceverb' syntax works in page headers, PDF bookmarks, and `hyperref' labels and otherwise much better than before, dis-/re-enableable featurewise as well as altogether * documentation extended, lists of script commands * configurable txt to TeX functionality or other replacements like ASCII-arrows to arrow commands or inserting index entries (setting up expandable replacement chains slightly more comfortable) -- try with templates and dialogue * `fifinddo' works with character codes > 127, improved setup * `makedoc' requires the `moreverb' package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nicetext/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=nicetext (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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

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CTAN Update: Polyglossia
by CTAN Announcements 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=polyglossia (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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

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CTAN update: combine
by CTAN Announcements 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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

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CTAN update: eukleides
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................... 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Keyword localization in German and some example scripts were added. Some minor bugs were corrected as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/eukleides . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/eukleides (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN has a new package: standalone
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .......................................................................................... 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/standalone/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/standalone (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CAN update: hyph-utf8
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyph-utf8/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8 (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN update: paresse
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint MIchael's College ............................................................................. 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/paresse/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/paresse (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN Update: biber
by CTAN Announcements 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/biber . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biber (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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

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CTAN update: biblatex 0.9a
by CTAN Announcements 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

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

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CTAN has a new package: turkmen
by CTAN Announcements 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .......................................................................................... 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Turkmen definition file for Babel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/turkmen . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/turkmen (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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CTAN update: biblatex-chicago-notes-df
by CTAN Announcements 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

This update should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-chicago-notes-df (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 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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