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CTAN Announcements | 1 Feb 13:55
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CTAN update: pst-coil

Herbert Voss wrote:

> I uploaded pst-coil.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please replace
> all files in the directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-coil/
> 
> and put the new ones in there.
> 
> pst-coil is a pstricks related package which plots
> zigzag lines, coils or any possible trigonometrical
> function as a line or node connection.
> 
> pst-coil.sty --------
>  2010-02-01  message for loading the pro file with file version
> 
> pst-coil.tex --------
> v. 1.03  2010-02-01  - allow an absolute value for the period
>                        with a rounding option
>                      - rename option frequency to period
> 
> pst-coil.pro --------
> v. 1.03  2010-02-01  - allow an absolute value for the period
>                        with a rounding option
>                      - rename option frequency to period

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

Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pst-coil.html
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CTAN Announcements | 1 Feb 14:34
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CTAN update: csv2latex

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: csv2latex
Version number: 1.1
Author's name: Alan Munn
Location on CTAN: /support/csv2latex
Summary description: Convert spreadsheet table cells into LaTeX source.
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
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csv2latex is a Ruby/Applescript combination for Mac OS X
that allows cut and paste of spreadsheet table cells into
LaTeX source in a variety of common LaTeX table formats. 
Requires Mac OS 10.4 or above.

As of Version 2.30 of TeXShop, csv2latex will be included as
part of TeXShop. Users of other text editors and users of
older versions of TeXShop should still find the script
combination useful. 

New in this release:
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CTAN Announcements | 1 Feb 17:08
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CTAN update: Crossword Diagrams

the daemon, leaps into action for a rare upload from south africa:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: Crossword Diagrams
> Author's name: Dirk Laurie
> Location on CTAN: crosswrd
> Summary description: Typeset blocked, barred or hybrid rectangular crosswords
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a backward-compatible update for the package originally
> written by Brian Hamilton Kelly in 1995 and updated for Latex-2e by
> Frank Mittelbach in 2006.  It implements the barred crossword
> envisaged by Brian himself, and adds rectangular grids as an option.
> Some macros for two-dimensional array processing may be of independent
> interest.  The documentation is thoroughly revised and extended,
> including a brand-new thematic cryptic crossword.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

thanks for the upload; i've 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/crosswrd.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/crosswrd/

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CTAN Announcements | 2 Feb 20:10
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CTAN Update: dvisvgm

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the

  dvisvgm

package.

Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm
Summary description: dvisvgm 0.8.8 has been released
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
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dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to
SVG. The latest version 0.8.8 is a minor update that fixes
a couple of bugs and prepares the code for the planned
integration of dvisvgm into TeX Live.

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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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm
(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 | 2 Feb 20:22
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CTAN update: xfrac (mh bundle)

i wearily wander home from work in my tatty old car, and slump down in
my chair.  licking his cruel lips, the daemon says:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: xfrac
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mh
> Summary description: Text style fractions
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> *Update by Joseph Wright on behalf of Morten Hoegholm*   
> 
> v0.3:
>  - Switch to new LaTeX3 xtemplate package for template 
>    definitions
>  - Provide defaults for Latin Modern fonts in addition to 
>    Computer Modern
>  - Internal function names revised to fit better to LaTeX3
>    conventions
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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

> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xfrac.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
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CTAN Announcements | 5 Feb 14:33
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CTAN Update: softmaker-freefont

On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the

  softmaker-freefont

package.

Location on CTAN: /fonts/softmaker-freefont
Summary description: Support files for SoftMaker free fonts.
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: 
Baskerville-Nova (regular + bold + italic + bold italic), 
Congress (regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Henderson,
Iceberg (regular + bold), Jugendstil, Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting

License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves)

New in v1.8:

 - added support for the font family Baskerville-Nova
   (regular + bold + italic + bold italic + faked slanted + faked small caps)
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CTAN Announcements | 6 Feb 13:43
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CTAN has a new package: renditions

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: renditions
Version number: v0.1
Author's name: D. P. Story
Summary description: Using the renditions package, you can create many versions, or 
  renditions, of content from the same source file.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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This is a short package sets up comment environments, called renditions.
These renditions can be included or excluded according to the value of
the rendition option. The basic options of this package are max and
rendition,

    \usepackage[max=4,rendition=3]{renditions}

In the above example, max=4 declares that there are 4 renditions in the
document, the option rendition=3 causes the package to include
rendition3, and to exclude all the others rendition1, rendition2, and
rendition4.
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CTAN Announcements | 6 Feb 13:51
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CTAN update: bibtool

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: BibTool
Version number: 2.50
Author's name: Gerd Neugebauer
Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/
Summary description: BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
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This is a bugfix release correcting an issue with name part
classification.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bibtool
(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 Feb 16:26
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CTAN update: glossaries

the daemon got all excited: this is the first of three...

> ======================================================================
> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: glossaries
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
> Summary description: Create glossaries and lists of acronyms. 
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.05:
> 
>  Fixed error in .ist file and in \glsdisp caused by a
>  misplace brace. (Patch provided by Sergiu Dotenco.)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i've installed the update, and made the relevant small change to the
catalogue repository.  thanks for the upload.

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

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CTAN Announcements | 6 Feb 16:32
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CTAN update: bibleref

ctan-upload@... wrote:

> ======================================================================
> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: bibleref
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/bibleref
> Summary description: Format bible citations
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.08:
> 
>  Fixed spelling mistake (Jeramiah -> Jeremiah)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

thanks for the upload -- i've 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/bibleref.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bibleref

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