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CTAN Announcements | 2 Jan 2009 17:22
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CTAN Update: economic

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 Arne Henningsen submitted an update to the

  economic

package.

Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/economic/
Summary description: LaTeX and BibTeX Support for Submissions to Economics Journals
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
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The "economic" bundle on CTAN has been updated. It includes
LaTeX classes and BibTeX styles for submissions to economics
journals. Support for following journals has been added in
the new version: Agricultural Economics (AgEcon), Applied
Economics (ApEcon), Journal of Political Economy (JPE),
Journal of Rural Studies (JRurStud), Post-Communist
Economies (PoCoEc), Regional Studies (RegStud), Tagungsband
of the Austrian Association of Agricultural Economists
(Oesterreichische Gesellschaft für Agraroekonomie, OeGA),
and World Development (WorldDev). Furthermore, a BibTeX
style for "Reference Style X" of Taylor and Francis has been
added.

The economic bundle is developed on Sourceforge.net as
"economtex" project now: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/economtex/

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CTAN Announcements | 2 Jan 2009 17:23
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CTAN Update: todonotes

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 Henrik Skov Midtiby submitted an update to the

  todonotes

package.

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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The localization options (danish and german) and the disable
options, were all flawed by naming inconsistencies that made
then break the package. This have been fixed.
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/todonotes/
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=todonotes
(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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CTAN Announcements | 2 Jan 2009 17:30
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CTAN Update: CJK version 4.8.2

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 Werner LEMBERG submitted an update to the 

  cjk

package.

CJK is a macro package for LaTeX, providing simultaneous support for
various Asian scripts in many encodings (including Unicode):
 – Chinese (both traditional and simplified),
 – Japanese,
 – Korean and
 – Thai.

A special add-on feature is an interface to the Emacs editor
(cjk-enc.el) which gives simultaneous, easy-to-use support to a bunch
of other scripts in addition to the above:
 – Cyrillic,
 – Greek,
 – Latin-based scripts,
 – Russian and
 – Vietnamese.

Location on CTAN: /language/chinese/CJK/
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
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 > CJK 4.8.2
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CTAN Announcements | 2 Jan 2009 17:33
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CTAN Update: ArsClassica package

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 Lorenzo Pantieri submitted an update to the

  arsclassica 

package.

The package changes some typographical points of the ClassicThesis style, by 
André Miede. It allows to reproduce the look of the guide

  http://www.lorenzopantieri.net/LaTeX_files/ArteLaTeX.pdf

(the web page is in Italian).

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/arsclassica/
Summary description: The manual is now in English. Support for the English, French, Spanish and German language.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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Changes in version 2.5.3 (January 2009)
 o Documentation both in English and in Italian; 
 o Support for the English, French, Spanish and German 
 language, via the new options "english" 
 (default), "french", "spanish" and "german", respectively.
 o New name, \arsincludegraphics, for the command which 
 allows to include graphics with ``Alice Blue'' coloured 
 background. The old name, \myincludegraphics, is still 
 manteined (for now), but deprecated.

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CTAN Announcements | 3 Jan 2009 00:23
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CTAN has a new package: ctanify

CTAN is happy to announce Scott Pakin's "ctanify" package, designed to prepare 
packages for CTAN.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
CTAN and Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: ctanify
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /support/ctanify
Summary description: Prepare a LaTeX package for upload to CTAN
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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ctanify is intended for developers of LaTeX packages who want to
distribute their packages via the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
(CTAN).  Given a list of filenames, ctanify creates a tarball (a
.tar.gz file) with the files laid out in CTAN's preferred structure.
The tarball additionally contains a ZIP (.zip) file with copies of all
files laid out in the standard TeX Directory Structure (TDS), which
facilitates inclusion of the package in the TeX Live distribution of
TeX.

So far, ctanify has been tested only on Linux.  Volunteers willing to
help port ctanify to other platforms are especially welcome.
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CTAN Announcements | 3 Jan 2009 23:27
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CTAN update: bclogo

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local
mirror.  Please note the change of location.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: bclogo
Author's name: Chupin Maxime
Author's email: notezik@...
Location on CTAN: /graphics/bclogo
Summary description: This package facilitates the creation of colorful boxes 
  with a title and logo. It relies mainly on PSTricks and/or Tikz.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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New version of bclogo, a new option, new logos, and now we
can use it with pdflatex with the use of tikz : we charge
the package bclogo with an option pstricks or tikz.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/bclogo
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bclogo
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
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CTAN Announcements | 4 Jan 2009 22:33
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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: todonotes

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 Henrik Skov Midtiby submitted an update to the 

  todonotes 

package.

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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Fixed a typo in a macroname. Added a textsize option for the
package and the prepend / noprepend option for the todo command.
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/todonotes/
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=todonotes
(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
  Rainer Schöpf
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CTAN Announcements | 4 Jan 2009 23:20
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CTAN update: keys3

my little daemon wrote:

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> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: keys3
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/keys3/
> Summary description: Key management for LaTeX3 
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Added .store in skip properties
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/keys3.html

(which will be updated overnight)

> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/exptl/keys3/

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

Robin Fairbairns
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CTAN Announcements | 5 Jan 2009 21:14
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CTAN has a new package: xecolour

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: xecolour
Author's name: Vafa Khalighi
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/
Summary description: Colour is XeLaTeX
License type: lppl

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xecolour package is a simple package which defines about 140
different colours by XeTeX's
colour feature that can be used in bidirectional texts
without any problem. All the command 
names are  the names of the colours (i.e. \blue for blue
colour) except ``\tancolour''
for ``tan colour'' and the general syntax of the command is

		\colourname{<text>}
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CTAN Announcements | 8 Jan 2009 23:21
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CTAN update: pst-func

Herbert Voss wrote:

> I uploaded pst-func.tgz to the uk node. Please replace the
> files with the ones in the directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/

i've done that and updated the catalogue entry for the package in the
repository; thanks for the upload.

> pst-func is a PSTricks related package for drawing
> special mathematical functions like distributions,
> polynomials, a.s.o.
> 
> This update has new PostScript routines for the
> Chebyshev polynomials first and second kind.
> 
> pst-func.tex --------
> 0.58  2008-12-08 - add ChebyshevT and ChebyshevU (first and second kind)
>                    the macros are only wrappers for the PS routines
>    	         - take the optional argument comma from pstricks-add
>                    into account for \psPrintValue
> 
> ..... pst-func.pro
> 0.10  2009-01-08  added ChebyshevT and ChebyshevU (first/second kind)

users may view the catalogue entry at:
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-func.html
or browse the package itself at:
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/
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