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Reinhard Zierke | 1 Oct 2003 10:17
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CTAN upload notification: beamer

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----

Name of contribution: beamer
Name and email: Till Tantau <tantau@...>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/beamer
Summary description: beamer update (replacement tarball)
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
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Version 0.71:
- Added bibliography environment and appropriate templates.
- Added \temporal command.
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Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
previous version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer/.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team
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Reinhard Zierke | 1 Oct 2003 10:12
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CTAN submission -- Update of l2tabu

----- Forwarded message from Mark Trettin -----
I have uploaded `l2tabu-1.6.tar.gz' (l2tabu.{pdf,tex}, Version 1.6)
to ftp.dante.de/incoming/

Name of contribution: Das LaTeX-Sündenregister (sins of LaTeX users)

Suggested location on CTAN: info/l2tabu/german/

Summary description: Obsolete commands, packages and other common
                     mistakes

License type: Free (Open Publication License v1.0)

Announcement text:
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A small list of obsoleted commands and packages that are constantly
posted in "minimal examples" to de.comp.text.tex. I further listed
common mistakes (e.g. \begin{appendix}...\end{appendix} instead of
\appendix ...). This file should be considered an add-on to the
available documentation like l2kurz and FAQs. 

This document is written in German.

Changes: * Added \sloppy
         * Added section numbers to FAQ references (changed FAQ Version
           to v72)
         * Some minor corrections
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Please untar the archive to CTAN:info/l2tabu/german/
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Jim Hefferon | 1 Oct 2003 15:22
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CTAN package update: framed.sty

A packge has been updated on tug.ctan.org and it should appear at your
favorite local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload
Jim Hefferon

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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: framed.sty
Author's name: Donald Arseneau
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/misc
Summary description: Create framed or shaded regions that can break across pages
License type: dfsg

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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Patch (that went missing from previous fix)
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You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc

although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors
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Jim Hefferon | 1 Oct 2003 20:06
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CTAN has a new package: KIX font

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it will make its
way to your favorite local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: KIX font
Author's name: Rick van Rein
Author's email: rick@...
Location on CTAN: /fonts/kixfont
Summary description: KIX is a barcode font used for easy-scanned snail mail addresses
License type: bsd

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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The postal services of a few countries accross the world use KIX to 
encode zipcode + home number.  This version is (at least) compatible 
with the Dutch system.
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You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/kixfont

although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors
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Robin Fairbairns | 2 Oct 2003 09:02
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Re: `framed.sty'

Rolf Niepraschk writes:

> The new updated LaTeX style
> 
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/framed.sty
> 
> has zero length. Does the mirroring not work?

it seems we installed a duff file.  i've put the previous version back
in place for the time being (i.e., while we wait for a new copy from
the author).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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Jim Hefferon | 2 Oct 2003 16:29
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CTAN package update: framed.sty

I have installed a corrected version of the package framed.sty 
at tug.ctan.org and it will make its way through the mirroring 
system in the next day or two.  

This fixes the mistaken installation that I did yesterday, where 
the file had 0 bytes.  Thank you to the people who wrote with a 
heads-up about the error.

You can look at the file at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/framed.sty
.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@...
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Rainer Schöpf | 2 Oct 2003 17:27

Re: CTAN upload notification: latexMP

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:

 > Name of contribution: latexMP
 > Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/metapost/latexmp/
 > Summary description: Interface for LaTeX-based typesetting in MetaPost
 > License type: pd
 >
 > Announcement text:
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 > The MetaPost package latexMP implements a user-friendly
 > interface to access LaTeX-based typesetting capabilities in
 > MetaPost.
 > The text to be typeset is given as string. This allows even
 > dynamic text elements, for example counters, to be used in
 > labels. Compared to other implementations it is much more
 > flexible, since it can be used as direct replacement for
 > btex..etex, and much faster, compared for example to
 > the solution provided by tex.mp
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your upload. I installed the package in

  graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/latexmp

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf
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Jim Hefferon | 2 Oct 2003 18:47
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CTAN has a new package: namespc

A new packge has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make
its way to your favorite local mirror soon.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: namespc
Author's name: Alexander Dreyer
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/namespc
Summary description: rudimentary c++-like namespaces in LaTeX
License type: lppl

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 The \textsf{namespc} package adds rudimentary \emph{c++}-like namespace
 functionality to \LaTeX. It may be used to declare local \LaTeX{} commands,
 which can be made accessible in a later contexts without defining them 
 globally. 
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You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/namespc
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors
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Jim Hefferon | 3 Oct 2003 15:15
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CTAN package upload: skak v1.3

A package has been updated on CTAN and by now should have made its
way through the maze of Internet connections to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the update,
Jim Hefferon 

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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: skak v1.3
Author's name: Torben Hoffmann
Location on CTAN: fonts/skak
Summary description: skak is used for typesetting of chess games 
  utilising the PGN standard
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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Changes from v1.2:
* Better typesetting of the moves; thanks to Dirk Bächle.
* A few corrections to the Informator symbols (Dirk again).
* Added URL's to PGN standard and the pgn2ltx tool.
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You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/skak
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors
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Rainer Schöpf | 3 Oct 2003 21:01

Re: CTAN upload notification: latexMP

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Juergen Fenn wrote:

 > I have uploaded an updated version of `l2tabuen.zip' to ftp.dante.de.
 > It contains my English translation of Mark Trettin's guide to LaTeX
 > called `l2tabu' v. 1.6, giving a lot of practical advice about how to
 > avoid the most common mistakes a user can make (i.e., obsolete
 > commands, and packages).
 >
 > Would you please replace both the *.tex, and the *.pdf files in
 >
 >   info/l2tabu/english

Thank you for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf
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