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CTAN Announcements | 2 Dec 2008 01:50
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CTAN update: latexmk

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

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: latexmk
Author's name: John Collins
Location on CTAN: /support/latexmk
Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation program
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
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V. 4.02b corrects a problem with the -c and -C options. 
They now delete latexmk's database file.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/
(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 Announcements | 3 Dec 2008 15:57
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CTAN update: svn-multi

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

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: svn-multi
Author's name: Martin Scharrer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/svn-multi/
Summary description: Update of svn-multi (was svnkw.sty) to version 1.3b.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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This update fixes some problems which occurred when
svn-multi was used together with [french]babel.

Many thanks goes to "mpg" for publishing a patch in the
comp.text.tex newsgroup
(http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/msg/c4ef18ad0e49ea49).
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/svn-multi/
.  More information is at
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CTAN Announcements | 4 Dec 2008 14:21
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CTAN has a new package: pdfx

This package has been installed 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: pdfx
Author's name: CV Radhakrishnan and Han The Thanh
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfx
Summary description: PDF/X-1a and PDF/A-1b support for pdfTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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pdfx is a LaTeX package which helps to create PDF/X-1a and
PFD/A-1b compliant pdf documents with pdfTeX.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfx
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pdfx
(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 .  
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CTAN Announcements | 7 Dec 2008 12:53
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CTAN update: TpX 1.5

This package has been updated and should soon be at your local 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: TpX 1.5
Author's name: Alexander Tsyplakov
Location on CTAN: /graphics/tpx/
Summary description: LaTeX-friendly drawing tool for Windows, v.1.5
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
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TpX 1.5 is on CTAN

TpX is a lightweight, easy-to-use graphical editor for
Windows platform for creation of drawings and inclusion them
into LaTeX files in publication-ready form. It can also be
used as a stand-alone editor for vector graphics.

The output is a file (with extension .TpX) containing the
drawing as LaTeX code or as an \includegraphics link to an
external file created by the program. User can choose
between several output formats. TpX saves its own data in
TeX file comments so that the drawing could be loaded into
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CTAN Announcements | 7 Dec 2008 18:37
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CTAN has a new package: pigpen for TeX, 0.2

Thanks to some bery quick work by Oliver, the package below has appeared,
on tug.ctan.org.  It will soon reach your local 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: pigpen for TeX, 0.2
Author's name: Oliver Corff
Location on CTAN: /fonts/pigpen
Summary description: Pigpen cipher, masonic cipher, or Freemason cipher, 
  a simple substitution
License type: lppl

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The Pigpen cipher package provides the font and the necessary wrappers 
(style file, etc.) in order to write Pigpen ciphers, a simple substitution 
cipher.

Version 0.2 has improved glyphs, an outline font and a minimal font map.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/pigpen
.  More information is at
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CTAN Announcements | 7 Dec 2008 18:43
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CTAN update: todonotes

This package has been updated 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: todonotes
Author's name: Henrik Skov Midtiby
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/todonotes
Summary description: The package lets the user mark things to do later, 
  in a simple and and visually appealing way.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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Reworked the color options for both the whole package and
the todo command. General code clean up. Added the
prependcaption package option.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/todonotes
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/todonotes
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CTAN Announcements | 8 Dec 2008 10:16
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CTAN Update: miktex_update

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the

  miktex_update

package.

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.

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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Changes in v1.2: 

Bugfix: 

added "--delete" to rsync options for real synchronization
(deleted files in the online repository will now also deleted in the local repository)

See: http://latex.josef-kleber.de/en_miktex_update.htm

        for more information
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CTAN Announcements | 8 Dec 2008 10:22
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CTAN has a new package: pdfcomment

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Josef Kleber submitted the new package

  pdfcomment

to CTAN.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment
Summary description: A user-friendly interface to pdf annotations
License type: lppl

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For a long time pdflatex offers the command \pdfannot for inserting 
arbitrary pdf annotations. However, in a form where additional knowledge
of the pdf reference is indispensable. pdfcomment.sty is an answer to 
the – from time to time – emerging questions in newsgroups, how one could 
use the comment function of Adobe Reader. At least out of the LaTeX code 
pdfcomment.sty offers a convenient and user-friendly possibility to use 
pdf annotations in pdf files.
Unfortunately the support of pdf annotations by pdf viewers is only partly 
available to nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this
package is Adobe Reader.
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcomment
(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 .
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CTAN Announcements | 8 Dec 2008 13:53
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CTAN update: venturisadf

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

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: venturisadf
Author's name: Clea F. Rees
Location on CTAN: /fonts/venturisadf
Summary description: Venturis ADF fonts collection with LaTeX support.
License type: other-free

Announcement text: 
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Fonts: complete serif and sans serif text font families, in
both Adobe Type 1 and OpenType formats for publication.  The
families are based on Utopia, and have been modified and
developed by Arkandis Digital Foundry.

LaTeX support: support and package files are included for
the type 1 fonts. A number of additional commands are
provided so that the various features of the fonts may be
accessed in LaTeX documents. These include variant widths,
additional weights, oldstyle and lining figures, swash
characters and titling fonts. See venturisadf.pdf for details.
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CTAN Announcements | 8 Dec 2008 13:59
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CTAN has a new package: dozenal

The package below has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your local 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: dozenal
Author's name: Donald P. Goodman III
Location on CTAN: /fonts/dozenal
Summary description: A package for typesetting documents in base twelve 
  (also called "dozenal")
License type: lppl

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dozenal is a package for typesetting documents in base
twelve, also called "dozenal."  It includes a macro by David
Kastrup for converting positive whole numbers to dozenal
from decimal (base ten).  It also includes a few other
macros, redefines all the standard counters to produce
dozenal output, and provides Metafont characters, in Roman,
italic, slanted, and boldface versions of each, for ten and
eleven (the Pitman characters preferred by the Dozenal
Society of Great Britain).  These characters were designed
to blend well with the Computer Modern fonts.
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