CTAN Announcements | 2 Jan 15:54
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New CTAN package: GFS Baskerville

my ctan-upload daemon wrote:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: GFS Baskerville
> Author's name: Antonis Tsolomitis
> Location on CTAN: fonts/greek/GFS/gfsbaskerville
> Summary description: Classic Greek Baskerville by GFS
> License type: other-free (OFL for the font, LPPL for the macros)
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The classic Baskerville Greek by GFS (www.greekfontsociety.org). 
> LaTeX support by Antonis Tsolomitis, Laboratory of Digital Typography
> and Mathematical Applications, University of the Aegean
> (http://myria.math.aegean.gr/labs/dt/).
> The package only supports Greek (the fonts themselves contain only
> greek glyphs).  This is the first release for LaTeX.

Thanks for the very welcome upload.  I have installed the font, and
created a catalogue entry in the repository.

> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/gfsbaskerville.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/greek/GFS/gfsbaskerville/

(the bundle itself is well on its way around the world; the catalogue
entry won't appear on the web anywhere until tonight some time.)

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CTAN Announcements | 3 Jan 16:47
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CTAN has a new package: mfpic4ode

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way through the mirroring system.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: mfpic4ode
Author's name: Robert Marik
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mfpic4ode
Summary description: A small set of macros to draw direction fields and 
  solutions of ODE's with mfpic
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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The mfpic4ode is a set of macros for drawing direction fields, phase 
portraits and trajectories of differential equations and two dimensional 
autonomous systems. The Euler, Runge-Kutta and 4th order Runge-Kutta 
algorithms are available to solve the ODE's. The picture is translated 
into mfpic macros and MetaPost is used to create the final drawing. The 
package is intended for LaTeX, but it can be used in plainTeX as well.

Online demonstration of the mfpic4ode macros is available on
http://wood.mendelu.cz/math/mfpicpreviewer/ as Example 6.

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CTAN Announcements | 3 Jan 23:15
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CTAN package update: lshort v4.23

Tobi Oetiker has uploaded the latest version of his "short introduction
to LaTeX 2e", and I've installed it as requested, and updated the
catalogue repository.

This new version of the introduction features a rework of the
mathematics chapter (done by Lan Thuy Pham), which (among other things)
assumes amsmath is loaded, in all its advice.

Thanks Tobi (and Pham) for the update.

Users may browse the catalogue entry (for what it's worth) at
  http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/lshort-english.html
or browse the package directory at
  http://mirror.ctan.org/info/lshort/english/
Those who only want the document itself may retrieve
  http://mirror.ctan.org/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf

The catalogue entry will be updated overnight, the package itself
already being on its way around the world.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

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CTAN Announcements | 6 Jan 17:44
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CTAN has a new package: Ecclesiastic Latin Typesetting

The package below has been entered in tug.ctan.org and should soon 
work its way through the mirroring system.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Ecclesiastic Latin Typesetting
Author's name: Claudio Beccari
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ecclesiastic
Summary description: A file style for typesetting latin according to 
  the ecclesiastic document style
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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This style file is for modifying the way the latin option to the babel 
package operates when typesetting Latin. The style is in some way 
"frenchizied" for what concerns punctuation spacings and footnote 
style, and shortcuts are available in order to set accents on all 
vowels, including y and the diphthongs ae and oe.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ecclesiastic
.  More information is at
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CTAN Announcements | 6 Jan 20:51
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CTAN package update: csquotes 3.8

Philipp Lehman wrote:

> I've uploaded `csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK 
> node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. Please 
> purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as 
> usual. Thank you very much.
> 
> ABOUT
> 
> The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and 
> display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging 
> from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of 
> formal quotations.
> 
> CHANGES
> 
> * Added variant 'guillemets*' to style 'swedish'
> * Added language alias 'australian'
> * Added language alias 'newzealand'
> * Internal improvements

i've installed the update as requested, and updated the catalogue
(minutely).  thanks for the upload.

Users may view the catalogue entry at:
  http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/csquotes.html
or browse the package directory at
  http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/

The catalogue entry will be updated overnight, but the revised package
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CTAN Announcements | 6 Jan 20:53
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CTAN package update: biblatex 0.7b

Philipp Lehman wrote:

> I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK 
> node. This is a maintenance update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. 
> 
> Please use the contents of the archive to replace the corresponding 
> files in macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. Note that the archive only 
> contains the files which have actually been modified.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> RELEASE NOTES
> 
> This is a minor maintenance update for biblatex 0.7. The following 
> files have been modified:
> 
> latex/biblatex.sty
> latex/lbx/naustrian.lbx
> latex/lbx/danish.lbx
> latex/lbx/ngerman.lbx
> latex/lbx/austrian.lbx
> latex/lbx/german.lbx
> 
> The updated files are tagged "0.7b 2008/01/05".
> 
> CHANGES
> 
> * Improved hyphenation of bibstrings when babel option is active
> * Workaround for bug in babel's 'hyphenrules' environment
> * New command \DeclareHyphenationExceptions for use in lbx files.
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CTAN Announcements | 8 Jan 10:17
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CTAN Update: The makecell package 0.1e and tablists package 0.0c

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Olga Lapko submitted updates to the

  makecell and tablists

packages.

Locations on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/makecell and /macros/latex/contrib/tablists
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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makecell:
This package offers a command, based on one-column tabular,
which at the top of everything allows to support a common
layout for tabular column heads in whole document. There are also: 

 1) a macro, which changes vertical spaces around all cells 
 in tabular (like in tabls package) based on array package; 
 3) macros numbered rows of cells or skipping cells in tabulars; 
 4) diagonally divided cells;
 5) horizonral lines in tabulars with defined thickness.

tablists:
tabulated lists of short items (useful for exersizes in textbooks)

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These packages are located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/makecell
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tablists
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CTAN Announcements | 8 Jan 18:58
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CTAN has a new package: LXfonts

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be
at your favorite mirror.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

(License note: the source to the slide show PDF is not provided.)

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: LXfonts
Author's name: Claudio Beccari
Location on CTAN: /fonts/lxfonts/
Summary description: Revived slide fonts
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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This bundle contains the traditional slides fonts revived
so as to be completely usable both as text fonts and math
fonts; they are fully integrate with the new operators, 
letters, symbols and extensible delimiter fonts, as well 
as with the AMS fonts, all redone with the same stylistic
parameters. They can be a valid alternative to many PS 
fonts used in the new presentation bundles. Their type1 
versions are included together with their map file.
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New CTAN package: nb4latex

quoth the upload daemon:

> ======================================================================
> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: NB4LATEX
> Author's name: Guido Milanese
> Author's email: 
> Location on CTAN: systems/msdos/nb4latex
> Summary description: Transforms old NotaBene4 files (DOS version) to LaTeX format
> License type: pd
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> A DOS programme designed to transform old NotaBene4 files (DOS
> version) to LaTeX format. Please see the README: the programme is old
> (1995-1997) and needs a radical update to support modern Windows
> versions of Nota Bene.  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i have installed the package, and updated the catalogue (which used to
list the program on an off-ctan website).  thanks for the upload.

> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://mirror-ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/nb4latex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://mirror-ctan.org/systems/msdos/nb4latex

the package itself is already on its way around the world; the catalogue
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CTAN Announcements | 9 Jan 00:47
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CTAN Update: skaknew

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 Ulrich Dirr submitted a new verrsion of the

  skaknew

package.

This package offers Adobe Type 1 versions of the fonts provided as 
MetaFont source by the skak bundle.

Location on CTAN: /fonts/chess/skaknew 
Summary description: Update skaknew & new AlphaDia font
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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Updated SkakNew-Diagram fonts, documentation and added new AlphaDia font.
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/chess/skaknew 
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=skaknew
(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
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