CTAN Announcements | 2 Nov 2009 08:39
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CTAN update: achemso

quoth the upload daemon:

> ======================================================================
> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: achemso
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso
> Summary description: Support for submissions to American Chemical Society journals
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v3.3c:
>  - Bug fix for author list when there are two entries
>  - New .cfg file for J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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

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

the catalogue entry may well be up-to-date, now.

Robin Fairbairns
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CTAN Announcements | 2 Nov 2009 08:43
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CTAN update: notes2bib

a bit later, the upload daemon wrote:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: notes2bib
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib
> Summary description: Integrating notes into the bibliography
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.0a:
>  - Some documentation improvements
>  - Change to reflect some expl3 style change
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i've installed the package and updated the catalogue.  thanks for the
upload.

> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/notes2bib.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib

the catalogue entry may well be up-to-date.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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CTAN Announcements | 2 Nov 2009 13:35
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CTAN has a new package: combinedgraphics

This should within a day be at 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: combinedgraphics
Version number: v0.0.2-alpha
Author's name: Christian Schneider
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/combinedgraphics
Summary description: macro for inclusion of combined EPS/LaTeX and PDF/LaTeX graphics
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
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This package provides a macro (|\includecombinedgraphics|) for the
inclusion of combined EPS/LaTeX and PDF/LaTeX graphics (an export
format of Gnuplot, Xfig, and maybe other programs).  Instead of including
the graphics with a simple |\input|, the |\includecombinedgraphics| macro
has some comforts:

* changing the font and color of the text of the LaTeX part
* rescaling the graphics without affecting the font of the
LaTeX part
* automatic inclusion of the vector graphics part, as far as LaTeX
  part does not do it (e.g., for files exported from Gnuplot before
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CTAN Announcements | 2 Nov 2009 13:40
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CTAN update: upmethodology

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: upmethodology
Version number: 20091102
Author's name: Stephane Galland
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Feature enhancement and bug fixes
License type: lgpl

Announcement text: 
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Add "book", "report" and "article" options for
upmethodology-document class. Fixing footnote macros to
allow to put any character as id. Add macros: \prname,
\drname, \phdname, \scdname, \mdname, \pename, \iename.
Allow to override the default document font in style
extensions. Rename \setbacklayout to \setbackcover. Add
\makebackcover.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/upmethodology
.  More information is at
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CTAN Announcements | 2 Nov 2009 13:45
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CTAN update: tablor

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: tablor
Version number: 4.06
Author's name: Guillaume Connan
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablor
Summary description: Create tables of signs and of variations.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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New option "windows" for microsoft windows users :
    \usepackage[windows,xcas]{tablor}
No need to change tablor.cfg.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tablor
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tablor
(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 Nov 2009 15:07
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CTAN has a new package: spreadtab

This should reach your local mirror in 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: spreadtab
Version number: 0.1
Author's name: Christian Tellechea
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/spreadtab
Summary description: Spreadsheet features for LaTeX table environments.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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This package provides spreadsheet features for LaTeX table
environments.

It allows to construct tables in a manner similar to a
spreadsheet. The cells of a table have row and column
indices and these can be used in formulas to generate values
in other cells.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/spreadtab
.  More information is at
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CTAN Announcements | 4 Nov 2009 12:19
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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: xesearch

the cambridge upload daemon stirs again, and says:

> ======================================================================
> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: xesearch
> Author's name: Paul Isambert
> Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/generic
> Summary description: A string finder for XeTeX.
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Corrected for ConTeXt (thanks to Wolfgang Schuster):
> - A bug happening only with ConTeXt has been fixed.
> - A third party file t-xesearch.tex is provided so ConTeXt users can
>   say \usemodule[xesearch].
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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

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

the catalogue entry (as above) will twitch a little, overnight tonight,
as it's rebuilt.
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CTAN Announcements | 4 Nov 2009 14:30
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CTAN has a new package: Apprends LaTeX !

This should within a day 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: Apprends LaTeX !
Version number: 3.0
Author's name: Marc Baudoin
Location on CTAN: /info/
Summary description: Apprends LaTeX ! (Learn LaTeX!) is a French documentation for 
  LaTeX beginners.
License type: other-nonfree

Announcement text: 
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Apprends LaTeX ! (Learn LaTeX!) is a French documentation
for LaTeX beginners.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/apprends-latex
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/apprends-latex
(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 | 6 Nov 2009 13:49
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CTAN update: pst-optexp

This should reach your local mirror in the next day.

Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: pst-optexp
Version number: 2.1
Author's name: Christoph Bersch
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optexp
Summary description: Drawing optical experimental setups.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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Changes in version 2.1

* Bugfix: removed the buggy check for an appropriate version
of pstricks-add.
* Bugfix: 'thicklens' now also works with plain* lenses
* Different minor bugfixes
* Different enhancements
* New psstyle 'OptComp' which sets general parameters for
all optical components. Appropriate parameters
'addtoOptComp' and 'newOptComp' were also introduced.
* New parameters:
    - 'label' allows a more condensed change of several
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CTAN Announcements | 6 Nov 2009 13:56
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CTAN update: disser

This should within the 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: disser
Version number: 1.1.3
Author's name: Stanislav Kruchinin
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: LaTeX classes, BibTeX styles, document templates and 
  Makefiles for typesetting dissertations in Russian.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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Summary of changes in version 1.1.3:

Classes and styles:
+ Added new bibliography styles "gost705" and "gost705s" for compliance with
  new GOST R 7.0.5-2008.
- Removed "disser" and "disser-s" bibliography styles.
+ Added index style for documented source code.

Makefiles:
+ Nomake files now support processing of multiple targets and compare
  modification times of input and output files.
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