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CTAN Announcements | 1 Oct 13:20
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ctan update: etextools

my upload daemon crawls out, blinking in the early autumn light, and
says

ctan-upload@... wrote:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: etextools
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: CTAN home/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etextools/
> Summary description: a lot of purely expandable tools for e-TeX -LaTeX Users and package Writers
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> etextools provides many (purely expandable) tools for LaTeX 
> - Extensive list management (csv lists, lists of single 
> tokens/characters, etoolbox lists):
>    . purely expandable loops (csvloop, forcsvloop etc.)
>    . conversion (csvtolist etc.))
>    . addition/deletion (csvadd, listdel etc.)
>    . purely expandable linear interpolation (interval, 
> locinterplin)
> - Tests on strings (among them \ifstrnum to check if a 
> string could be parsed by eTeX's \number)
> - Selective detokenization (\detokenizeChars) and character-
> test
> - Purely expandable macros with options (\FE <at> testopt) or 
> modifiers (\FE <at> modifiers)
> - Vectorized form of \futurelet: \futuredef can read more
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CTAN Announcements | 1 Oct 16:07
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CTAN update: luamplib

This update should within a day be at your local mirror.

Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: luamplib
Version number: 1.02
Author's name: Elie Roux
Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luamplib/
Summary description: Use LuaTeX's built-in MetaPost interpreter.
License type: pd

Announcement text: 
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Inputing the .mp file if the loading of the .mem file fails,
adapting the .mem names for TeXLive 2009,
adapting search function,
improving the warning/error/log messages.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luamplib/
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luamplib
(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 | 1 Oct 23:40
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CTAN update: jpgfdraw

to the ringing sounds of a martinu symphony, the daemon sings out:

> ======================================================================
> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> version 0.5.5b
> 
>  * Fixed bug that can cause save function to prematurely terminate
>    when saving after trying to quit with unsaved data. 
> 
>  * Added check if I/O operation in progress before discarding frame.
> 
>  * Added progress bar when loading and saving images.
> 
>  * Fixed bug when exporting image with text-path object to SVG
>    (class cast exception).
> 
>  * Fixed bug when exporting image with text-path object to pgf
>    ("null" written when alternative LaTeX text wasn't set).
> 
>  * Added print function to jdrview.
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CTAN Announcements | 2 Oct 14:02
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CTAN update: latex-veryshortguide

This should reach your local mirror within a day.

Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: The Very Short Guide to LaTeX
Version number: 1 Oct 2009
Author's name: Peter Flynn
Location on CTAN: /  info/  latex-veryshortguide 
Summary description: An 4pp folder designed as an aide-mémoire for people who have just 
 done a course in LaTeX and need something by them on their desk the next day to refresh 
 their memories. It is not intended as a substitute for full documentation.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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This revision corrects some minor typographical
inconsistencies, and rephrases some descriptions for greater
clarity.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex-veryshortguide 
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latex-veryshortguide
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CTAN Announcements | 2 Oct 14:04
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CTAN update: asymptote

This should within a day be at your local mirror.

Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Asymptote
Version number: 1.88
Author's name: John Bowman
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl

Announcement text: 
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Compilation without OpenGL was fixed. PRC billboard labels
were implemented; settings.billboard was renamed to
settings.autobillboard and by default enabled for all 3D
labels. The surface constructor for embedding labels on
surfaces now draws both the top and bottom faces by default.
The meshpen, knot, weight, and color arrays are now properly
cached.  The example fequlogo.asy illustrates how to draw an
arbitrary 3D background plane. The intermediate DVI file is
now removed when producing SVG output.  Improvements were
made to the tutorial.

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CTAN Announcements | 2 Oct 17:55
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CTAN Update: softmaker-freefont

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the 

  softmaker-freefont

package.

Location on CTAN: /fonts/softmaker-freefont/
Summary description: Support files for SoftMaker free fonts available at www.freefont.de
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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In June 2009 www.freefont.de offered a beautiful handwriting font
for free download: The Softmaker Stone Handwriting.
As handwriting fonts are a quite limited resource in the LaTeX world,
i decided to create support files for this beautiful font. Therefore,
Stone Handwriting will be the starting point for the softmaker-freefont 
bundle. Other fonts will be included in future.

Supported fonts at the moment: 
Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold),
Stone Handwriting

License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves)

New in v1.4:

 - added LaTeX support for the small caps font Delano-Caps
   Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the
   month (October 2009) and can be downloaded for free (at least
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CTAN Announcements | 2 Oct 20:37
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CTAN update: fmtcount

another upload rouses him from his slumbers, and the daemon writes:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: fmtcount
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fmtcount
> Summary description: Display the value of a LaTeX counter in a variety of formats
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 1.31:
> 
>  * fixed unwanted space in \decimalnum
> 
>  * fixed bug that ignores spaces after commands like
>    \ordinalnum.
> 
>  * added Italian support (translations provided by Edoardo Pasca)

thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and updated the
catalogue repository.

> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fmtcount.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fmtcount

the catalogue entry has a few pointers in need of updating; that will
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CTAN Announcements | 5 Oct 11:24
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New CTAN package -- match_parens-1.1

Wybo Dekker wrote:

> I have uploaded (new) match_parens-1.1.zip at ftp.dante.de/incoming
> 
> - I have added a GPL notice
> 
> - Unpack in support
> 
> - please announce
> 
> - further info in README

match_parens is a perl script to assist the user check parenthesis
balancing in documents.

i have installed the package, and updated the catalogue repository --
thanks for the upload.

Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/match_parens.html
or browse the package's directory at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/match_parens

The catalogue entry will not appear until the processing run, some time
overnight tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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CTAN Announcements | 6 Oct 14:29
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CTAN update: luamplib

This should be at your local mirror within a day.

Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: luamplib
Version number: 1.02
Author's name: Elie Roux
Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luamplib/
Summary description: Use LuaTeX's built-in MetaPost interpreter.
License type: pd

Announcement text: 
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changing the name of the .mem file to mplib-luatex.mem,
which will be the one of next TeXLive.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luamplib/
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luamplib
(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 | 6 Oct 20:46
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CTAN update: autolatex

This should within a day be at your local mirror.

Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: autolatex
Version number: 7.1
Author's name: Stephane Galland
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Minor bug fix in Makefiles
License type: lgpl

Announcement text: 
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A warning is displayed by the default Makefiles when it
tries to display the list of the auto-generated pictures
when the "auto-generation" flag was set to false.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/autolatex
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/autolatex
(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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