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CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org | 1 Apr 14:48
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CTAN has a new package: The CodeDoc class

This package is new on tug.ctan.org and should in the next day 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: The CodeDoc class
Author's name: Paul Isambert
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/codedoc
Summary description: Produce LaTeX code and documentation in a single file with 
  ordinary LaTeX syntax.
License type: lppl

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The CodeDoc class is an alternative to DocStrip (and 
others) to produce LaTeX code along with its 
documentation without departing from LaTeX's ordinary 
syntax.

The documentation is prepared like any other LaTeX 
document and the code to be commented verbatim is simply 
delimited by an environment. When an option is turned on 
in the class options, this code is written to the 
desired file(s).
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CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org | 2 Apr 00:12
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CTAN update: libris

This package has be updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day 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: libris
Author's name: Clea F. Rees
Location on CTAN: /fonts/libris
Summary description: LibrisADF
License type: other-free

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Includes updated OTF and TTF fonts. Note that the type 1
fonts, which are used by the LaTeX package, and the
corresponding support files are unchanged.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/libris
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/libris
(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 (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org | 2 Apr 00:22
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CTAN update: pst-sigsys

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your
mirror.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: pst-sigsys
Author's name: Farshid Delgosha
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: An update to the pst-sigsys package
License type: lppl

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The pst-sigsys is a collection of useful macros for
disciplines related to signal processing. It defines macros
for plotting a sequence of numbers, drawing the pole-zero
diagram of a system, shading the region of convergence,
creating an adder or a multiplier node, placing a framed
node at a given coordinate, creating an up-sampler or a
down-sampler node, and connecting a list of nodes using any
node-connecting macro.
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This package is located at
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CTAN Announcements | 2 Apr 09:35
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CTAN Update: todonotes

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Henrik Skov Midtiby submitted an update to the

  todonotes

package.

The package lets the user mark things to do later, in a simple and and visually 
appealing way.  The package takes several options to enable 
customization/finetuning of the visual appearance.

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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Added a use case for linking to the list of todos, idea from
Andreas Plank. Introduced a package option for listening to
the draft option given to the document class.
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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 .
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CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org | 2 Apr 20:28
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CTAN update: silence

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day 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: silence
Author's name: Paul Isambert
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Selective filtering of error messages and warnings.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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Update:
* LaTeX Font Warnings can now be filtered out.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/silence
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/silence
(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 | 2 Apr 23:02
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CTAN Update: pdfcomment

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the

  pdfcomment

package.

For a long time pdflatex has offered the command \pdfannot for inserting
arbitrary PDF annotations. However, the command is presented in
a form where additional knowledge of the definition of the PDF format is
indispensable. This package is an answer to the – occasional – questions
in newsgroups, about how one could use the comment function of Adobe
Reader. At least for the writer of LATEX code, the package offers a
convenient and user-friendly means of using \pdfannot to provide comments
in PDF files. Since version v1.1, pdfcomment.sty also supports:

      LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf, LaTeX -> dvipdfmx and XeLaTeX.

Unfortunately, support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers is sparse to
nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is
Adobe Reader.

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

Announcement text: 
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New in v1.4:
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CTAN Announcements | 2 Apr 23:04
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CTAN Update: dvisvgm 0.7.2

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the

  dvisvgm

package.

Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm
License type: gpl

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dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG.

The latest release introduces a caching mechanism for
vectorized bitmap fonts. The slowest part during a DVI to
SVG conversion using dvisvgm is the call of Metafont and the
following vectorization of its bitmap output. To increase
the conversion speed in this area, dvisvgm now keeps
information about the vectorized glyphs in cache files for
future usage. This avoids multiple Metafont calls for the
same fonts as well as repeated vectorizations of the same
glyphs.  

To reduce the length of font path description a bit, dvisvgm
now generates SVG shorthand path commands if possible.

For further information including a list of recent changes
and pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project
page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net
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CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org | 3 Apr 01:32
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CTAN update: jeopardy

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: jeopardy.sty   - fixed example with babel/pdfscreen issue
Author's name: Robert Marik
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/
Summary description: Fix for two of the examples - babel is not compatible with pdfscreen
License type: lppl

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This update fixes problem reported on comp.text.tex in
January. The package pdfscreen (I use 1.5) is not compatible
with babel and it has to be modified slightly to work well
(there are problems with catcode of @ when creating table of
contents in panel). I've removed babel from example files
written in English and these files (game2.tex, game2a.tex)
should compile fine now. For two remaining czech demo files
(game3.tex, jeopardy-CZ.tex) you still need the fixed
pdfscreen. 
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CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org | 3 Apr 11:31
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CTAN update: dozenal

This package has been updated on tug.ctan.or and should within a day 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: dozenal
Author's name: Donald P. Goodman
Location on CTAN: /fonts/dozenal
Summary description: Typeset documents using base twelve numbering (also called "dozenal").
License type: lppl

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The package supports typesetting documents whose counters
are represented in base twelve, also called “dozenal”. It
includes a macro by David Kastrup for converting positive
whole numbers to dozenal from decimal (base ten)
representation.  The package also also includes a few other
macros and redefines all the standard counters to produce
dozenal output.  Bugs in the original redefinition of these
standards counters have been resolved.

Fonts, in Roman, italic, slanted, and boldface versions,
provide ten and eleven (the Pitman characters preferred by
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CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org | 3 Apr 13:46
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CTAN update: Frontespizio

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: Frontespizio
Author's name: Enrico Gregorio
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib
Summary description: This package provides an environment to typeset a 
  frontispiece to theses in Italian style
License type: lppl

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The frontespizio package lets you typeset a frontispiece (suitable for
Italian university style) independently of the page layout of the main
document.

This is version 1.1 of the package; the only change from version 1.0 is
the addition of the option `swapnames', to exchange the position of
candidate and advisor names. A bug with option `onlyinclude' has been 
corrected.
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