CTAN package update: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8 encoding

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
favorite mirror.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8 encoding
Author's name: Mojca Miklavec
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Hyphenation patterns have been converted into UTF-8 
  and should serve as a replacement for the old patterns without any 
  change in functionality. The patterns should be considered upstream 
  replacement that will be used in TeX Live and other distrubutions 
  instead of loding the old files.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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- hyph-en-gb.tex (ukhyphen) and hyph-en-us.tex (ushyphmax) added
- Russian and Ukrainian depend on the old loading schemes (for UTF-8) again
- some Russian patterns added (cyryoal (yo) for Russian and some more) that 
  were forgotten before
- import documentation for Bulgarian (still waiting for update from author)

one upload before that:

CTAN Update: Phaistos.otf

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted an update to the

  phaistos

package.

It is a A font that contains all the symbols of the famous Disc of Phaistos, 
together with a LaTeX package.  The disc was ‘printed’ by stamping the wet clay 
with some sort of punches, probably around 1700 BCE.

There are those who believe that this Cretan script was used to ‘write’ Greek 
(it is known, for example, that the rather later Cretan Linear B script was used 
to write Greek), but arguments for other languages have been presented.  Given 
that the disc is the only known example of the script, it seems unlikely that a 
decipherment will ever be confirmed.

Location on CTAN: /fonts/archaic/phaistos
License: lppl

Announcement:
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Now that the symbols of the Disk of Phaistos are included in Unicode,
I have created an OpenType font from the Type 1 font that we had
created some years ago. 

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Thanks for the upload.

CTAN Update: pict2e

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Josef Tkadlec submitted an update to the

  pict2e

package.

This package was described in the 2nd edition of ‘LaTeX: A Document Preparation 
System’, but the LaTeX project team declined to produce the package.  For a long 
time, LaTeX has included a ‘pict2e package’ that merely produced an apologetic 
error message.

The new package extends the existing LaTeX picture environment, using the 
familiar technique (cf. thegraphics and color packages) of driver files.  The 
package documentation has a fair number of examples of use, showing where things 
are improved by comparison with the LaTeX picture environment.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pict2e
License: lppl

Announcement text: 
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Changed: extended slope arguments for \line and \vector; horizontal and vertical 
lines use PS/PDF operators, too. Added: macros for drawing arcs, lines given by 
endpoints, polygons; path constructions (as in PS/PDF); control of shapes of 
line ends.

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This package is located at 

CTAN Update: miktex_update

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the

  miktex_update

package.

Location on CTAN: /support/miktex_update
Summary description: A cygwin bash script for automatic updating and installing new packages of MiKTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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The miktex_update script offers automatic updating and/or installing of new
packages of an existing MiKTeX installation. It supports direct connection
with online repositories of the MiKTeX server network, as well as synchronizing 
a local repository (CTAN) with following update. In the end you should have an
up-to-date and complete MiKTeX installation.

License: LPPL

Changes in v1.1: 

Bugfix: 
in local searchonly mode (miktex_update -ls) mpm could not access cygwin's 
/tmp/... directory -> Error: mpm.exe: Invalide MiKTeX configuration. 
-> moved temp directory to %TEMP% (Windows environment variable) directory

Changed behavior of option -o, --online (without -r, --repository)
the script will no longer echo a random online repository, but use it directly
to connect with the MiKTeX server network.

CTAN package update --- memoir class v1.618033

Peter Wilson <herries.press@...> wrote:

>     I have uploaded memoir1618033.tar.gz to UK incoming which
> v1.618033 of the memoir class. A tds.tar.gz file is included in this
> for easy user installation. Can you please put these into the
> appropriate places on CTAN.
> 
> Changes (2008/06/02)
> o New version 1.618033 of memoir.cls with bug fixes for
> \feetbelowfloats and sidebar geometry for the larger font sizes.
> o NO CHANGE TO THE MANUAL

i have installed the update (including its .tds.zip) and updated the
catalogue.  thanks for the update.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

[my apologies for the extra delay of this announcement -- it should have
been sent on the morning of the 4 july, the package having been
installed on the 3 julyu.]
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CTAN package update: flowfram

ctan-upload@... wrote:

> ======================================================================
> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: flowfram
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/flowfram
> Summary description: Create text frames for posters, brochures or magazines
> License type: lppl

thanks for the upload; i have installed the new files and updated the
catalogue.

> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v1.11:
> 
>   * fixed bug in \getstaticbounds and \getflowbounds
> 
>   * removed unwanted spaces in \setflowframe
> 
>   * removed unwanted space in \setdynamicframe
> 
>   * fixed 'clear' key bug in \setdynamicframe
> 
>   * added facility to customize rules created with \inserthrule and \insertvrule
> 
>   * added commands to determine the relative location of one frame from another

tug.ctan.org upload: xstring

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

Thank you again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: xstring
Author's name: Christian Telllechea
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xstring
Summary description: manipulation of strings
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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This package provides macros manipulating strings, such as:
  * tests:
     - does a string contains at least n times an another?
     - does a string starts (or ends) with another? etc.
  * extractions of substrings:
     - what is on the left (or the right) of the nth occurrence of a
       substring;
     - what is between the occurrences of 2 substrings;
     - substring between 2 positions, etc.
  * substitution of all (or the n first) occurrences of a substring
    for an other substring;

CTAN has a new package: XePersian

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

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: XePersian
Author's name: Vafa Khalighi
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xepersian
Summary description: Typesetting Persian/Arabic in XeLaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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XePersian is a packge written for XeLaTeX which allows users to typeset 
Persian/Arabic easily. The current version is 0.1 and it will be 
developed to meet the needs of Persian typesetting completely. XePersian 
supports a lot of LaTeX packages and classes and intended to be a 
complete and proper package for typesetting Persian and Arabic.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xepersian
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/XePersian

CTAN Has a new package: tdsfrmath

A new package is at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: tdsfrmath
Author's name: yvon Henel
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tdsfrmath
Summary description: a bunch of macros for French maths teachers of collège 
  and lycées
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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A bunch of macros for French maths teachers of collège and lycées (and 
more perhaps). Should facilitate the everyday use of LaTeX for maths 
teachers.

The package uses xkeyval, suffix and xargs.

The doc is in French but could be translated if necessity should arise, 
feel free to ask 
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This package is located at 

Re: CTAN submission -- scrindex v1.0

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 at 14:10 +0200, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the

   oberdiek

bundle.

Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/
License: LPPL

New:
 * scrindex v1.0
   This package redefines environment `theindex' of package `index',
   if a class from KOMA-Script is loaded. Also option `idxtotoc' is 
   supported. Index preambles can be given either by means of package
   `index' or via the interface provided by KOMA-Script.

Thanks for the update.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf  
  

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