CTAN package update: bib2ml

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: bib2ml
Author's name: Stéphane GALLAND
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Major bug fix in bib2ml 6.3
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
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Previous versions of bib2ml do not load the locale strings of the 
generation themes. The 6.3 release fixes this major bug and provides 
the support of the TeX command \url.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bib2ml
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bib2ml
(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 .

CTAN package update: siunitx

This package has been updated.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: siunitx
Author's name: Joseph Wright
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx
Summary description: A comprehesive (SI) units package
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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v1.0h:
- Removed spurious warning when setting tabformat
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/siunitx
(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 .
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CTAN package update: pst-solides3d

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

Note that the CTAN path has been corrected from ../pst-solide3d (without the "s").

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: pst-solides3d
Author's name: Herbert Voss
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solides3d/
Summary description: Drawing 3D perspective views of solids and mathematical 
  functions
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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This new version 4.10 has the following changes:	
-- new behaviour of the macro \psProjection
-- new behaviour of drawing math curves 
-- option resolution on the subject curve is replaced by the ngrid
-- modified macro \axesIIID
-- viewpoint in spherical coordinates
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New CTAN package: jpgfdraw

Through the medium of www.tex.ac.uk uploader, Nicola Talbot writes:

> Name of contribution: jpgfdraw
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: graphics/jpgfdraw
> Summary description: vector graphics application for LaTeX users
> License type: gpl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jpgfdraw is a graphics application written in Java.
> 
> You can use Jpgfdraw to:
> 
> * Construct shapes using lines, moves and cubic Bezier segments.
> 
> * Edit shapes by changing the defining control points.
> 
> * Incorporate text and bitmap images (for annotation and
> background effects).
> 
> * Extract the parameters for TeX's \parshape command
> and for \shapepar (defined in the shapepar package).
> 
> * Construct frames for use with the flowfram package.
> 
> * Pictures can be saved in Jpgfdraw's native binary format (JDR)
> or native ascii format (AJR) or can be exported as:
> 
>   - a pgfpicture environment for use in LaTeX documents with the

CTAN package update: cryst

ctan-upload@... wrote:

> Name of contribution: cryst
> Author's name: Ulrich Mueller
> Location on CTAN: /fonts/cryst
> Summary description: Fonts for the graphical symbols used in
>		       crystallography with Type-1 fonts 
> License type: nosell
> 
> Announcement text: 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fonts for the graphical symbols for symmetry elements used in crystallography.
> tex-archive/fonts/cryst already had the files cryst.mf and cryst.tfm
> to create the symmetry symbols.  These remain unchanged. The files
> cryst.afm and cryst.pfb for PostScript Type-1 fonts have been
> added. The old files cryst.tex, cryst.dvi, cryst.ger and ucrys.fd are
> obsolete and can be deleted.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This package is located at 
>    http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/cryst
> .  More information is at
>    http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=cryst
> (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
> appear).

thanks for the upload; i've installed the package as requested (at
Cambridge, in the absence of the dante.ctan.org manager).

Distribution managers should note the change of licence (it was

CTAN bundle update: mh

ctan-upload@... wrote:

> ======================================================================
> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: mh
> Author's name: Morten Høgholm
> Author's email: mh.ctan@...
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mh
> Summary description: mh update
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Changes this time around:
> 
> xfrac has been moved from the experimental area on CTAN and into the
> mh bundle. Note that it requires *very* recent versions of expl3 and
> xpackages which have themselves just been uploaded to CTAN.
> 
> mathtools has been extended by Lars Madsen and robustified a few
> places. New features are: 
>   \MoveEqLeft for adjusting the left hand side of a multiline equation
>   \ArrowBetweenLines for, er, adding arrows or other symbols between
>     two consecutive lines of a multiline equation. 
> 
> breqn has seen bug fixes as well as some new features regarding labels.
> 
> mathstyle and flexisym have had bug fixes regarding active characters.

CTAN package update: expl3

ctan-upload@... wrote (in its inimitable way):

> ======================================================================
> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: expl3
> Author's name: Morten Høgholm
> Location on CTAN: macros/contrib/expl3
> Summary description: expl3 update
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a snapshot of the svn repository as of 2008/08/03.

from the readme file:

  The files of the expl3 bundle provide a low-level API for TeX
  programmers with special syntax conventions, completely separating it
  from document level syntax. Hence, the commands provided are not
  intended for use at the document level nor for use in describing
  design layouts in document class files.

  This API provides the foundation on which the LaTeX3 kernel and other
  advanced extensions are built. Special care has been taken so that
  they can be used within a LaTeX2e context as regular packages.

users should review the rest of the (extensive) readme file for further
details.

CTAN package renamed and updated: xpackages

ctan-upload@... wrote:

> ======================================================================
> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: xpackages
> Author's name: Morten Høgholm
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xpackages
> Summary description: xpackages update
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a snapshot of the svn repository as of 2008/08/03.
> 
> Only stable modules are included, which currently is limited to the
> modules  xbase and xtheorem.
> 
> Changes in xparse:
> Semantics for \DeclareDocumentCommand has reverted to the original
> (overwrite).  Two new commands \NewDocumentCommand and
> \RenewDocumentCommand have been introduced. Same applies for
> environments.
>
> Xparse:
> A reimplementation of the interface to AMS-LaTeX's theorem definition
> commands, using the facilities of the template package of xbase.

the interested user may browse the (extensive) readme file for further

CTAN package update: inversepath

ctan-upload@... wrote:

> A submission was uploaded to 
>   /var/ftp/incoming/upload-20080731-090518.001/ 
> on tug.ctan.org.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: inversepath
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/inversepath
> Summary description: Calculate the inverse of a file path
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text: 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Minor update. New command \inversepath* now prints nothing to the PDF
> (better for programatic purposes).
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This package is located at 
>    http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/inversepath
> .  More information is at
>    http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/inversepath

i've now installed this package and updated the catalogue.  sorry about
the delay.

Robin Fairbairns

CTAN Update: vpp package

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 Wybo Dekker submitted version 2.0 of the

 vpp (view_print_ps_pdf)

package.

vpp (View and Print PDF/Postscript) displays a pdf or
postscript document and lets you print (or save as PDF)
selected pages to a one- or two-sided hardcopy or an A5-booklet.
Can also be used to re-arrange pages in a PDF document.

Location on CTAN: /support/view_print_ps_pdf
License: LPPL

Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf

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