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CTAN Announcements | 1 Feb 11:11
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CTAN update: xwatermark

the daemon tried to wake me with:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: xwatermark
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Author's email: amusa22@...
> Package version: 1.5.2a
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xwatermark/
> Summary description: A dynamic watermarking scheme for LaTeX.
> License type: lppl
> 
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> An independent outer-brace stripper is introduced for xwatermark to
> offset a previous external dependence.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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

The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.

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CTAN Announcements | 1 Feb 11:39
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CTAN update: l3kernel, l3packages, l3experimental

the daemon wrote (last night, when i was struggling with a problem)@

> Name of contributions: l3kernel
> Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team@...
> Package version: SVN 3287
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
> 
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Snapshot of SVN 3285
> --------------------
> 
>  - Drop loading of calc package by expl3. This was included for
>    historical reasons, and users requiring calc should now load
>    it explicitly.
>  - Better documentation of load-time options for expl3.
>  - Extend coverage of characters set to 'correct' catcodes by
>    \ExplSyntaxOn.
>  - l3str and l3regex documentation improved in preparation
>    for addition to stable codebase.
>  - Various l3str functions renamed or removed.
>  - l3regex now recognises "\u" as a shortcut for token list
>    variables.
>  - Better handling of active characters and spaces in file
>    names when using \io... or \file... operations.
>  - xgalley improvements to incorporate behaviour of \\ as in
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CTAN Announcements | 1 Feb 17:54
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New CTAN package: jfontmaps

On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Norbert Preining submitted the

  jfontmaps

package.

Summary description: font maps and support scripts for managing kanji embedding for Japanese TeX
License type: other-free

Announcement text: 
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First upload of separated out packages of jfontmaps together with the new script update-setup-kanji
(former update-otf).
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/language/japanese/jfontmaps
.  More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/jfontmaps
(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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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf
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CTAN Announcements | 1 Feb 17:56
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CTAN Update: xeCJK

On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Leo Liu submitted an update to the

  xecjk

package.

Summary description: A package written for XeLaTeX which allows users to typeset CJK scripts easily
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
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This is a bug fix update. \CJKglue is not changed by \setCJKmonofont+ globally, only verbatim font is
affected now.
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/xecjk/
.  More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xecjk
(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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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf
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CTAN Announcements | 1 Feb 19:38
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CTAN Update: pagecolor

On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the

  pagecolor

package.

License type: lppl

Announcement text:
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New commands \newpagecolor{...} and \restorepagecolor, similar to \newgeometry and \restoregeometry
of the geometry package.
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pagecolor
.  More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pagecolor
(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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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update -- pdfcrop 1.33


Heiko Oberdiek wrote:

> I have uploaded `pdfcrop.zip' in the /incoming directory
> of ftp.cam.ctan.org.
> 
> It replaces the files in CTAN:support/pdfcrop/
> and pdfcrop.tds.zip goes in CTAN:install/support/
> 
> Changes:
> 
> 2012/02/01 v1.33
>   Standard input can be used as input PDF file.
>   Then the output file name must be given explicitly.

thanks for the upload; i've installed it as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

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2 Feb 16:28






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new on ctan: book examples


Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss@...> wrote:

> I uploaded examples.tgz to the uk CTAN node
> Please save all files in the _new_ directory
> 
> /info/examples/Einfuehrung/
> 
> This upload contains all examples with the source
> code, document classes, and data files for the new
> book of the DANTE-Edition "Einführung in LaTeX".
> http://www.dante.de/index/Literatur/Einfuehrung.html

i have installed the files and created a catalogue entry.

thanks for the upload.

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2 Feb 19:13






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New CTAN Package: japanese-otf-uptex


On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 Norbert Preining submitted the

  japanese-otf-uptex

package.

Summary description: upLaTeX support of japanese-otf
License type: other-free

Announcement text: 
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This is a package for upLaTeX support of
japanese-otf package "otfbeta (v1.7b3 2011/10/28)" by psitau-san
( http://psitau.kitunebi.com/otf.html )
It requires upTeX-0.20 or later.

It was written by TANAKA Takuji.
The tfm/vf files were created by Preining Norbert.
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/language/japanese/japanese-otf-uptex
.  More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/japanese-otf-uptex
(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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3 Feb 23:21






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CTAN Update: chemmacros


On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the

  chemmacros

package.

Summary description: macros and commands for chemists
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
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Updated README and documentation now containing a few notes about the correct 
installation. Particularly the directories language/ and pictures/ need to be 
copied in the same directory as the style files.

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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/chemmacros/
.  More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/chemmacros
(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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4 Feb 18:37






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CTAN Update: mdframed


On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 Marco Daniel submitted an update to the

  mdframed

package.

Summary description: auto split frame environment
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
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- add options shadow, shadowsize, shadowcolor
- fixed bugs
- fixed documentation

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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdframed
.  More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mdframed
(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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