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CTAN Announcements | 6 May 2006 12:32
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CTAN has a new package: Beamer LaTeX class tutorial (in portuguese)

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College

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

Name of contribution: Beamer LaTeX class tutorial (in portuguese)
Author's name: Carlos Campani
Location on CTAN: /info/portuguese/beamer
Summary description: Beamer tutorial
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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A short introduction to Beamer class for LaTeX2e.
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See this package at 
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/portuguese/beamer
.  You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror
near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .  
Our service is 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 Announcements | 6 May 2006 12:37
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CTAN package update: microtype

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thank you for the update,
Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College

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

Name of contribution: microtype
Author's name: R Schlicht
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype
Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX
License type: lppl

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 Changes in version 1.9d
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 * Support for the Central European QX encoding
   (inheritance, generic protrusion settings, contributed by Maciej Eder;
    protrusion settings for Times)
 * Protrusion settings for various Euro symbol fonts (Adobe, ITC, Marvosym)
 * Compatibility with the tex4ht package
 * Support for Unicode input in the configuration (inputenc/utf8)

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CTAN Announcements | 9 May 2006 13:42
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CTAN package update: exceltex

A package has been (after some bumbling on my part) updated at tug.ctan.org
and by now has likely made it to your favorite mirror.

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College

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

Name of contribution: exceltex
Author's name: Hans-Peter Doerr
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/exceltex
Summary description: get data from Excel files into LaTeX
License type: gpl

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Exceltex is a LaTeX package combined with a helper program written in 
Perl. It provides a easy to use yet powerfull and flexible way to get 
data from Spreadsheets into LaTeX.

In difference to other existing solutions, exceltex does not seek for 
making the creation of tables in LaTeX easier, but to get data from 
Spreadsheets into LaTeX as easy as possible.

The excel fileformat only acts as an interface between the spreadsheet 
application and exceltex beacause it is easily accessible via the
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Robin Fairbairns | 10 May 2006 09:10
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New CTAN package: tabto.sty

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I've uploaded tabto.sty to ac.uk. 
> 
> It is a new package, sort of a merger of tabto.tex and 
> varindent.tex providing:
> 
> Tabbing to fixed positions in a paragraph.
> Commands \tabto (\tabto*) and \tab.
> 
> It is LPPL.  It could go in macros/latex/contrib/misc or have
> its own directory created.

i've installed the files (tabto.sty and tabto.txt) in a new directory
macros/latex/contrib/tabto

thanks for the upload: i'll update the catalogue for the overnight
run.

Robin Fairbairns

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CTAN Announcements | 10 May 2006 14:03
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CTAN package update: listings

A package update has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should soon
be at your favorite mirror.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College

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

Name of contribution: listings
Author's name: Brooks Moses
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/listings
Summary description: Typeset source code listings using LaTeX.
License type: lppl

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Typeset programs (programming code) within LaTeX. The source code is read 
directly by TeX. Keywords, comments and strings can be typeset using 
different styles (default is bold for keywords, italic for comments and 
no special style for strings). Includes support for hyperref. To use, 
simply \usepackage{listings}, identify the language with 
\lstset{language=Python}, then employ the \begin{lstlisting} ... 
\end{lstlisting} environment or the \lstinputlisting{filename.py} command.

NOTE: The original author of this package, Carsten Heinz, became inactive 
sometime in late 2004.  Hendri Adriaens took over maintenance of the 
package in accordance with the LPPL's procedure for abandoned packages.
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CTAN Announcements | 11 May 2006 13:27
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CTAN has a new package: opteng

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College

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

Name of contribution: opteng
Author's name: Patrick Egan
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/opteng
Summary description: SPIE Optical Engineering and OE Letters manuscript template
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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With this template, and associated style and \LaTeX\ packages, it is 
possible to estimate the page length of manuscripts for submission to 
the SPIE journals \textit{Optical Engineering} and \textit{Optical 
Engineering Letters}. With a strict three-page limit, this is particularly 
important for the latter. This template gives simple instructions on how 
to prepare the manuscript.
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See this package at 
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/opteng
.  You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror
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CTAN Announcements | 11 May 2006 16:46
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CTAN package update: ConTeXt

The ConTeXt package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon
make its way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College

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

Name of contribution: ConTeXt
Author's name: Taco Hoekwater
Location on CTAN: /macros/context/current
Summary description: ConTeXt 2006.05.11 released
License type: gpl

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I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen
can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its
mirrors, as well as a CTAN node near you.

The current release has version 2006.05.11

A very short list of changes is given below. As usual, there is an
html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see:

  http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes
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CTAN Announcements | 12 May 2006 11:12
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CTAN update: svninfo

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Achim D. Brucker submitted an update to the

  svninfo 

package,

a package for incorporating the values of Subversion keywords into typeset 
documents.  Information about Subversion (a replacement for CVS)  is 
available from 

  http://subversion.tigris.org/'>http://subversion.tigris.org/

Location on CTAN: /tex/macros/latex/contrib/svninfo/
Summary description:  A package for accessing svn revision information
License type: lppl

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This release adds special support for multi-file documents, i.e., 
\svnInfoMinRevision and \svnMaxRevision allows one to access the minimum 
and maximum revision numbers of such a document. Using the new package 
option "revrange" a short revision overview similar to the svnversion 
command of svn is generated. Furhter, "\" are now allowed in expaned svn 
keywords.
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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf
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CTAN Announcements | 12 May 2006 17:48
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CTAN package update: A Classic Thesis Style

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should already be at your 
favorite mirror.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College  

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

Name of contribution: A Classic Thesis Style
Author's name: André Miede
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis
Summary description: Update of classicthesis
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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Update of classicthesis: fixes many little bugs and annoyances (please 
see prodvided CHANGES file).

Most important change: the look-and-feel can now be used without the 
bundle and works for both LaTeX and PDFLaTeX. :-)

Thanks to all the folks who already sent me a postcard!
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  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis
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ctan | 12 May 2006 18:39
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dante.ctan.org out of service 2006-05-16/17

The main CTAN node

  dante.ctan.org (a.k.a. ftp.dante.de)

will be out of service between 2006-05-16 19:00 and 2006-05-17 07:00 UTC,
due to changes to the technical infrastructure.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schöpf
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