On Wed, 3 Mar 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:
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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),
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 v1.9:
- added support for the font family Sunset
(regular + bold + faked slanted + faked small caps)
Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the
month (March 2010) and can be downloaded for free (at least
this month) at: http://www.freefont.de
Later you can buy it from Softmaker
- added options scaled and leading to all existing style files
- changing font families: fsh->5sh, fhs->5hs, ffs->5fs, fib->5ib
- renamed freefont.map -> softmaker-freefont.map
- renamed directory Baskerville-Nova -> BaskervilleNova
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Thomas Titz submitted an update to the
idxlayout
package.
Summary description: Configurable index layout, responsive to KOMA-Script and memoir
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- Corrected emulation of setindexpreamble
- New option columnnote
- Package index now supported
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/idxlayout/
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http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=idxlayout
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This should within a day be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: TeXshade
Version number: 1.21
Author's name: Eric Beitz
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texshade/
Summary description: Update of the DNA and protein sequence alignment LaTeX package TeXshade
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is version 1.21 of TeXshade. It fixes some bugs but mainly introduces a
convenient new way to select residues that are to be specially labeled by having
TeXshade search for sequence motifs.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/texshade/
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Robin Höns submitted the
ratexdb
package.
Summary description: Database reports using LaTeX and Ruby
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This is a compatible rewrite of LaTeXDB by Hans-Georg Eßer in Ruby.
It is a preprocessor which performs SQL queries on a
database and creates LaTeX code for the resulting rows.
Ratexdb implements a few improvements, e.g. regexp
postprocessing, command-line options, some protection
against SQL injection, replacement of LaTeX reserved characters.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/support/ratexdb/
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This should reach your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Sait Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: geometry
Version number: 5.2
Author's name: Hideo Umeki
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/geometry
Summary description: Flexible and easy interface to page dimensions
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Release 5.2
* Fixed a bug that the papersize setting explicitly specified
with geometry or usepackage in the preample didn't come to
ewgeometry.
* Added mag offset adjustment for
ewgeometry.
* Added 'onecolumn' option as a shorthand for 'twocolumn=false'.
* Changed the format of the verbose mode.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/geometry
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the daemon's active today...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: silence
> Author's name: Paul Isambert
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/silence
> Summary description: Selective filtering of error messages and warnings.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Small improvements:
> - The debrief option really counts all messages now.
> - The package is compatible with LuaTeX.
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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/silence.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/silence
the catalogue entry will change, in a small way, overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: easylist
> Author's name: Paul Isambert
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib
> Summary description: Lists using a single active character.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> The package is compatible with LuaTeX (thanks to Elie Roux).
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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/easylist.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib
the catalogue entry will twitch slightly, overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon sleeps ... and then awakes while _i_ sleep:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: tocvsec2
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tocvsec2
> Summary description: Section numbering and table of contents control
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Bug fix that removes occasional extraneous vertical space before section
> headings. This will unfortunately change, perhaps, the output of some old
> documents that use this package, but that's the sad price that must be paid for
> the existence of a bug.
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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/tocvsec2.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tocvsec2
the eagle-eyed (who have never looked before) will notice minuscule
change in the catalogue entry.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Thanks again,
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: lua-alt-getopt
Version number: 0.7.0
Author's name: Khaled Hosny
Summary description: A lua module for processing application's arguments the same way
BSD/GNU getopt_long(3) functions do.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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lua_altgetopt is a MIT-licenced module for Lua programming
language for processing application's arguments the same way
BSD/GNU getopt_long(3) functions do.
This module is made available for lua script writers to have
consistent command line parsing routines.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/lua-altgetopt
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This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Knitting Pattern class
Version number: 1
Author's name: Hugh Griffiths
Summary description: LaTeX class for formatting knitting patterns
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This class aims to provide a simple, effective method for
knitters to produce high-quality, attractive patterns using
LaTeX. It does this by providing commands to handle as much
of the layout of the document as possible, leaving the
author free to concentrate on the pattern.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/knittingpattern
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