the daemon's been working away again, and reports:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: Interfaces
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/interfaces
> Summary description: A few pgfkeys-macros to modify a large number of
> parameters in LaTeX documents
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Interfaces provides a small number of macros to modify
> the settings
> ^^^^^^^^^^ of a large number of parameters provided by Most
> Frequently
> Used Packages (MFUP!) for typesetting beautiful documents
> with LaTeX.
>
> The macros shares a standardized syntax of the form key=value. The key
> names are intuitive: font, top, bottom, left, right, bookmark, bold,
> italic, color, twocolumns, title, pagestyle, before, after, indent
> etc.
>
> Interfaces DOES NOT provide any new feature, except
epeatcell,
>
owfont, and ookmarksetup (as long as the bookmark package does not
> `steal' them to interfaces... what whould be considered as a favour!)
>
> A few macros are modified. The complete list is included in
> interfaces.pdf, with explainations.
>
> * * * *
> Interfaces is organised in different modules which are loaded after
> the master package is loaded. Each module can be loaded separately.
>
> Commands provided: (each in a distinct module) -------------
> ----------
>
> sectionformat: interface for package titlesec to modify
> the titles
> produced by the sectionning commands (and their
> bookmarks).
> replaces itleformat, itlespacing and
> itleclass and
> is compatible with them.
>
> pagesetup: interface for package fancyhdr to modify the
> current page
> style or create new page styles. Replaces
> fancypagestyle
> fancyhf, fancyhfoffset,
>
enewcommandheadrulewidth etc.
>
> ocsetup: interface for package tocloft to fine tune the
> aspect of
> the table of contents, list of figures / of tables.
> ocsetup also
> applies to shorttableofcontents provided by the
> shorttoc package.
> Facility to make multi-columns table(s) of contents
> is included,
> give a label for the table of contents/of figures/of
> tables...
> give them a bookmark. Replaces a lot of tocloft' control
> sequences.
>
>
epeatcell: to create `dynamic' tabulars, possibly
> with formulas
> computation:
umexpr, pgfmathparse or FPeval
> formulas can be
> plugged in the tabular or array, with the possibility to
> transpose.
>
>
owfont: to modify the font and/or the alignment of
> each cell in a
> tabular/array row. Modification of the alignment has some
> limitations.
> Compatible with all package compatible with
> array.sty,colortbl,hhline,
> arydshln,delarray etc.
>
> + some macros to make easier the use of e-TeX marks
> registers (useful
> with sectionformat and
> pagesetup).
>
> runctext and htruncadjust are provided in order to take
> advantage of
> the code provided by the package
> truncate.sty
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------
>
> Interfaces is mainly based on scrlfile.sty ( provided in
> the Koma-
> Script bundle, but Koma-Script classes are not required),
> on pgfkeys
> and etoolbox.
>
> Interfaces defines some pgfkeys handlers designed
> specially to make
> key-value interfaces for other packages. Using those
> handlers permit
> the design of an interface in a few minutes... (well,
> good knowledge
> of pgfkeys is required ;-)
>
> . ookmarksetup is also enhanced with starred keys.
>
> . Facility to load TikZ libraries and pgf modules is
> provided via usetikz.
>
> . pgfkeys is enhanced with a new ``default'' value in case
> the value is blank.
>
> . scrlfile's AfterFile and BeforeFile have starred forms.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the package, and made an entry
in the catalogue repository giving a brief outline.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/interfaces.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/interfaces
the catalogue entry will not appear on the web until some time tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should 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: xetex-itrans
Version number: 2.0
Author's name: Shrisha Rao
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/generic/itrans/
Summary description: Baraha/ITRANS input mappings for XeLaTeX, for Devanagari, Kannada, and Telugu.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Baraha mapping for Kannada is added, as is an ITRANS Telugu mapping.
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/generic/itrans/
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xetex-itrans
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group
see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's Colllege
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Metapost
Version number: 1.212
Author's name: Taco Hoekwater
Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/base
Summary description: The metapost graphics engine
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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MetaPost 1.212 has a much improved reference manual and
contains a set of small bugfixes for earlier 1.2xx releases.
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/base
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/metapost
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group
see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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Update summary:
version 0.9a
- Compatibility to biblatex 0.9e.
- New option 'postnote'. This option can take the values
'inparen' and 'afterparen', where 'inparen' puts the
postnote in subsequent citations inside the parenthesis
holding the 'see note N' phrase. The default is
'afterparen' (thus, the default behaviour has changed,
because the HZ style requires it. The style description
was wrong at this point, and I did not check properly in
the printed journal. Therefore, the biblatex style
'historische-zeitschrift' was wrong in this particular
point. For compatibility reasons, and because it might be
useful, I turned the wrong behaviour into the option
'postnote=inparen').
- @reference and @inreference are now supported (as an
alias for @collection and @incollection, respectively, as
they do not require special treatment).
Basic package information, as sent by the contributor.
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Location: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/historische-zeitschrift
Caption: Biblatex style for the journal 'Historische Zeitschrift'
Description: The package provides citations according with the house
style of the ‘Historische Zeitschrift’, a German historical journal.
The scheme is a fullcite for the first citation and ‘Author,
Shorttitle (as note N, P)’ for later citations (P being the page
number). For further details, see the description of the house
style at the journal's site.
The package depends on biblatex (version 0.9e or higher).
Author: Dominik Waßenhoven
License: lppl
Name: historische-zeitschrift
Version: 0.9
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More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/historische-zeitschrift
(this link may take a day to sync). Our archive service is sponsored
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I have uploaded mathmode-new.tgz to the uk ctan node.
> there is also a damaged mathmode.tgz, please delete
> this file.
(noted)
> Please replace the files with the existing ones in
> /info/math/voss/mathmode/
>
> This new version 2.45 has the following changes:
>
> 2010-10-18 - fix bug with missing $ symbols
> - typos
thanks for the upload; 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/entries/voss-mathmode.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should 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: Asymptote
Version number: 2.05
Author's name: John Bowman
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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Arbitrary depth array constructors were re-instated.
Profiling code was added. Spaces within file names and eps
file attachments are now supported in inlinetex mode, and
interference from any pre-existing aux file is avoided. A
new auto-generated version (1.21) of asymptote.sty
contributed by Will Robertson features a latexmk-compatible
asyinclude command. Path-overwriting bugs in the NSIS
MSWindows installer were circumvented.
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group
see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This should 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: luaotfload
Version number: 1.20
Author's name: Khaled Hosny
Summary description: OpenType layout system for Plain TeX and LaTeX
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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* Make cache directory creation more robust
* Fix GPOS mark placement in left-to-right direction
* Reject fonts missing 'names' table
* Sanitize color value before attempting to use it
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group
see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 Salome Södergran submitted the new package
koma-moderncvclassic
to CTAN.
Summary description: Makes the style and command of moderncv (style classic) available for koma-classes and thus compatible with biblatex.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides an imitation of the moderncv-class
with the classic style (by Xavier Danaux), to be used in
conjunction with the koma-classes.
Thus it is possible to configure pagelayout, headings etc.
the way it is done in koma-classes. Moreover, it is possible
to use biblatex, while the original moderncv-class is
incompatible with biblatex.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/koma-moderncvclassic
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=koma-moderncvclassic
(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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This should 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: rec-thy
Version number: 1.0
Author's name: Peter M. Gerdes
Summary description: Commands to typeset recursion theory (aka computability theory) papers
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Initial release of the rec-thy package
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rec-thy
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/rec-thy
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group
see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .