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CTAN Announcements | 1 Aug 2010 12:38
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New CTAN font: adforn

before i had got to my computer this morning, the daemon had said

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: adforn
> Author's name: Clea F. Rees
> Location on CTAN: fonts/adforn
> Summary description: OrnementsADF with TeX/LaTeX support
> License type: other-free
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> OrnementsADF font in postscript type 1 format with TeX/LaTeX support files.
> 
> Font is licensed under GPL v2 or later with font exception. (See
> NOTICE, COPYING, README.) 
> 
> TeX/LaTeX support is licensed under LPPL. (See README, manifest.txt.)

thanks for the upload; i have installed the font and its support files.
it will make its way to mirrors over the next 24 hours or so.

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

that address for the catalogue entry will become active overnight
tonight.
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CTAN Announcements | 1 Aug 2010 19:11
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CTAN update: fontspec v2.0c

the upload daemon stirred me to action ... on an earlier upload ... by
saying:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: fontspec v2.0c
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fontspec
> Summary description: Advanced font selection in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.0c of fontspec contains a bug fix and a documentation tune-up:
> 
>     * Significant bug fix reported simultaneously by Enrico Gregorio and
>       Don Hosek.
>     * Many documentation improvements and additions due to David Perry.
>     * Documentation typo thanks to John McChesney-Young

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

the catalogue entry will change very slightly, overnight tonight.
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CTAN Announcements | 3 Aug 2010 21:42
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CTAN update luamplib

This should 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: 1.04
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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    * fixing a bug in LaTeX's detection (made Tikz fail)
    * setting luamplib-luatex as the default name for the
format, it's the case in TeXLive 2010
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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 | 3 Aug 2010 21:42
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CTAN has a new package footmisc_de

This should soon be at your local mirror.

Thanks again,
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: footmisc_de
Version number: 1
Author's name: Christine Römer
Summary description: a translation into German of the documentation for footmisc
License type: nocommercial

Announcement text: 
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Students in my latex seminar and i translated into german the
documentation to footmisc.  Also, in the first part a few examples are
given to illustrate the options. 
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/translations/footmisc/de
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/footmisc_de
(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 | 4 Aug 2010 19:05
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CTAN update: pst-plot

Herbert Voss wrote:

> I uploaded pst-plot.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please
> delete all files in the directory
> 
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-plot/
> 
> and put the new ones in there.
> 
> ----- pst-plot.tex
> 1.18  2010-08-03  - added plotstyle ybar
>                   - added optional arguments xLabels, yLabels,
>                     xLabelsRot, and yLabelsRot

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

Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pst-plot.html
or browse the package's directory at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-plot/

The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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CTAN Announcements | 4 Aug 2010 08:58
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CTAN update: Iwona and Kurier fonts


On Tuesday, 3 August 2010, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to
the

   Iwona and Kurier font

packages.

Location on CTAN: fonts/kurier
Summary description: A two-element sans-serif typeface
License type: GUST Font License

Location on CTAN: fonts/iwona
Summary description: Alternate version of kurier
License type: GUST Font License

Announcement text:
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In the current version 0.995b some missing .fd files were readded and
the TDS layout was slightly changed.
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This package is located at:
   http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/{iwona,kurier}
More information is at:
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=iwona
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=kurier
(If the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear.)  We are supported by TeX Users Groups, please join one of
them; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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CTAN Announcements | 4 Aug 2010 22:42
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CTAN update asymptote

This should 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: 2.03
Author's name: John Bowman
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl

Announcement text: 
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An optional asydir parameter that allows asy files to be
generated in a subdirectory was added to version 1.18 of
asymptote.sty; XeLaTeX support was fixed. Nonrendered
preview images via render=0 are now implemented.  Blank 3D
labels were fixed. Problems with arc directions and ellipses
in the geometry module were fixed. The definition of the
Dotted linetype was improved. Missing pen and margin
parameters were added to the flowchart blockconnector
function calls. Virtual methods were optimized. Makefile
dependencies were fixed and autogenerated files are cleaned
up. The dependence of the source tarball on perl was
removed. Minor improvements were made to the documentation
and man page. The Asymptote installation directory is now
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CTAN Announcements | 5 Aug 2010 10:49
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new CTAN package: logreq 1.0

Philipp Lehman wrote:

> I've uploaded 'logreq.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK 
> node. There's also a logreq.tds.zip file. This is the initial release 
> of the logreq package which should go into:
> 
> 	macros/latex/contrib/logreq.
> 
> ABOUT
> 
> The logreq package helps to automate a typical LaTeX workflow that
> involves running LaTeX several times, running tools such as BibTeX
> or makeindex, and so on. It will log requests like "please rerun
> LaTeX" or "please run BibTeX on file X" to an external XML file
> which lists all open tasks in a machine-readable format. Compiler
> scripts and integrated LaTeX editing environments may parse this
> file to determine the next steps in the workflow in a way that is
> more efficient than parsing the main log file. In sum, the package
> will do two things: 1) enable package authors to use LaTeX commands
> to issue requests, 2) collect all requests from all packages and
> write them to an external XML file at the end of the document.

thanks for the upload.  i've installed the files, and made an entry in
the catalogue repository for the package.

Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/logreq.html
or browse the package's directory at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/logreq/
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CTAN Announcements | 5 Aug 2010 10:56
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CTAN package update: biblatex 0.9b

Philipp Lehman wrote:

> I've uploaded biblatex.tar.gz and biblatex.tds.zip to the incoming 
> directory of the UK node. This is an update for 
> macros/latex/exptl/biblatex. Please purge the old files, install the 
> new ones, and announce the upload as usual.

i have installed the new version, and will commit the catalogue update
any minute now.

> RELEASE NOTES
> 
> This release adds a new dependency on the recently released logreq 
> package, which is also available from CTAN. Make sure you install this 
> package when updating biblatex.
> 
> Users running Biber need to update Biber as well.
> 
> See the file RELEASE for further release notes.
> 
> CHANGES
> 
> Please refer to the full list at the end of biblatex.pdf and to the 
> release notes.

Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/biblatex.html
or browse the package's directory at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/
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CTAN Announcements | 5 Aug 2010 11:59
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New CTAN package: realscripts

Will Robertson has sent us:

> name:           realscripts
> me:             Will Robertson
> description:    Access OpenType subscript and superscripts
> location:       macros/latex/contrib/realscripts
> 
> \begin{release text}
> Small package to replace `\textsuperscript` & `\textsubscript`
> by equivalent commands that use OpenType font features
> to access the appropriate glyphs if possible.
> 
> Also patches LaTeX's default footnote command to use this
> new `\textsuperscript` for footnote symbols.
> 
> Requires fontspec running on either XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.
> 
> This package has been extracted from xltxtra (by the same author)
> for use primarily with LuaLaTeX (since this functionality is also
> provided by xltxtra). In time, xltxtra will be updated to load this
> package instead.
> \end{release text}

(for reasons unexplained, he found it impossible to connect to the
upload server.)

i have installed the package and made a catalogue entry for it in the
repository.  thanks for the submission.

Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
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