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CTAN Update: eledmac-eledpar
by CTAN Announcements 23 Dec '12

23 Dec '12

Maïeul submitted an update to the eledpar package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This change correct some little bug, as spurious spaces, with both foot and marginal notes in eledpar. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eledmac . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/eledpar (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 updates: l3kernel, l3packages, l3experimental
by CTAN Announcements 23 Dec '12

23 Dec '12

the daemon reported (three times): > Name of contribution: l3kernel,l3packages,l3experimental > Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project > Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org > Package version: SVN 4390 > Locations on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/ > macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/ > macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental > Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Snapshot SVN 4390 > ----------------- > > - Defensive change to allow for redefinition of RequirePackage > which could lead to issue with eserveinserts > - Update peek_... functions to cover various edge cases > - Make KeyValue work with > - Fix implementation of l3galley to work correctly with > LaTeXe's @@par > - Galley improvements in handling of parshape and cutouts, > naming of functions, etc. > - Various documentation clarifications thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entries at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/l3experimental.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/ > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/ > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: hyperxmp (delayed announcement)
by CTAN Announcements 23 Dec '12

23 Dec '12

the daemon wrote > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: hyperxmp > Author's name: Scott Pakin > Package version: 2.2 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/hyperxmp/ > Summary description: Embed XMP metadata within a LaTeX document > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform) is a mechanism proposed by Adobe > for embedding document metadata within the document itself. The > metadata are designed to be easy to extract, even by programs that are > oblivious to the document's file format. Most of Adobe's applications > store XMP metadata when saving files. Now, with the hyperxmp package, > it is trivial for LaTeX document authors to store XMP metadata in > their documents as well. > > hyperxmp integrates seamlessly with hyperref and requires virtually no > modifications to documents that already exploit hyperref's mechanisms > for specifying PDF metadata. The current version of hyperxmp can > embed the following metadata as XMP: title, authors, primary author's > title or position, metadata writer, subject/summary, keywords, > copyright, license URL, document base URL, document identifier and > instance identifier, language, source file name, PDF generating tool, > PDF version, and contact telephone number/postal address/email > address/URL. hyperxmp is compatible with pdflatex, > latex+dvips+ps2pdf, latex+dvipdfm, xelatex, and lualatex. > > Version 2.2 of hyperxmp adds support for the IPTC Photo Metadata > schema. It allows xmpcomma and xmpquote to be used in any hyperxmp > option, not only those that require special treatment of commas. And > it introduces an xmplinesep macro that controls how multiline fields > are represented in the XMP packet. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/hyperxmp.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hyperxmp/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: exsheets
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the exsheets package. Summary description: Yet another package for the creation of exercise sheets. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - corrected translation of exercise titles into Catalan - added means to easily create variants of exams ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/exsheets . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/exsheets (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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New on CTAN: aecc
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

Luis Rivera submitted the aecc package to CTAN. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- First release of Almost European Concrete Roman fonts. This is a set of virtual fonts (built from the standard Concrete fonts) providing a set of fonts that almost cover the T1 encoding. The main characters missing, of those specified in the T1 encoding are eth, thorn, and the Sami letter eng. Sometimes the £ (pound sterling) character is also missing. For the typewriter fonts, the situation is worse. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/aecc . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/aecc (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: dirtree
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

the daemon reported: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: dirtree > Author's name: Jean-Côme Charpentier > Package version: 0.32 > Location on CTAN: macros/generic/dirtree/ > Summary description: Display trees in the style of windows explorer. > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The dirtree package provides a macro to typeset directory trees like > in windows explorator. > > This version fixes a bug about length and changes some names in order > to prevent clash with other packages. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/dirtree.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/dirtree/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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new on CTAN: backnaur
by CTAN Announcements 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

the daemon wrote: > Name of contribution: backnaur > Author's name: Adrian Robson > Author's email: adrian.robson(a)nepsweb.co.uk > Package version: 1.1 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/backnaur > Summary description: Typesetting for Backus-Naur Form (BNF) definitions. > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The backnaur package typesets Backus-Naur Form (BNF) definitions. > It prints formatted lists of productions, with numbers if required. > It can also print in line BNF expressions using math mode. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/backnaur.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/backnaur/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team users please note: i have taken the brunt of one of the changes to the ctan web site, and have been snowed under with uploads. fortunately, i haven't needed to announce all of them, but there remain several days' announcements.

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New on CTAN: concepts
by CTAN Announcements 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

the daemon told me: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: concepts > Author's name: Michiel Helvensteijn > Package version: 0.0.4 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/concepts/ > Summary description: managing names and symbols of document specific formal concepts > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is the first fully documented version of the concepts > package. Initially written for my own use (as I imagine many > packages are), but I hope it will be useful for many people! > > I'm happy to receive feedback. Preferably in the issue > tracker at: http://latex-concepts.googlecode.com thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/concepts.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/concepts/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team users please note: i have taken the brunt of one of the changes to the ctan web site, and have been snowed under with uploads. fortunately, i haven't needed to announce all of them, but there remain several days' announcements.

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CTAN Update: latexdiff
by CTAN Announcements 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Frederik Tilmann submitted an update to the latexdiff package. Summary description: Determine and mark up significant differences between latex files License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Highlights of the new version are: - Choice of granularity of equation processing allows latexdiff to be used even with complicated changes in complicated equations - Option --flatten now works recursively - Highlighting of changes to the title, author or date of a manuscript, even if defined in the preamble In addition many minor improvements have been made to improve the robustness of the difference file. In addition a dedicated webpage has been created at Berlios Developler site, offering: - mailing lists for users and developers, a system for submitting bug reports and feature requests - an SVN server opening up the possibility of collaborative development See http://latexdiff.berlios.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latexdiff . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexdiff (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: morehype
by CTAN Announcements 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Uwe Lück submitted an update to the morehype package. Summary description: Hypertext tools with LaTeX (hyperref, HTML) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Another fix of `texlinks.sty' v0.7 as of November (-> v0.71). ctanannpref (smart referring to CTAN announcements) gets behaviour according to documentation, as opposed to previous code and my original usage. Tiny documentation fixes (Wikipedia piped links) have been uploaded earlier silently. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/morehype . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/morehype (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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