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CTAN Announcements | 10 May 2013 17:24
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CTAN Update: snotez

Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the

  snotez

package.

Summary description: sidenote support for LaTeX 2e
License type: lppl

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allow `*<num>' syntax for sidenote offsets that are <num> multiples of \baselineskip

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CTAN Announcements | 9 May 2013 11:12
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CTAN Update: ptex2pdf

Norbert Preining submitted an update to the

  ptex2pdf

package.

Summary description: Convert Japanese TeX documents to pdf
License type: gpl

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version 0.4  2013-05-07 NP
  quote the filename with ", so that special chars do survive
  add an example for TeXworks for files with different kanji encoding

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   http://mirror.ctan.org/language/japanese/ptex2pdf/
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CTAN Announcements | 9 May 2013 11:11
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CTAN Update: lgrx

Günter Milde submitted an update to the

  lgrx

package.

Summary description: Greek text with the LGR font encoding
License type: lppl

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Replace the "CamelCase names" for accent macros
with "\acc" + <greek glyph name>. 
(No change to the "symbol macros" for Greek diacritics.)

Documentation update, more testing.

Enclosed is also the file 8-bit-greek.txt
with suggestions for the re-organisation of
the support for Greek in text mode on 8-bit
TeX engines. 

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CTAN Announcements | 9 May 2013 11:08
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New on CTAN: try

Ajabu Tex submitted the 

  try

package.

Summary description: Automation of TeX/LaTeX compilation. And more.
License type: lppl

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Program for automating the compilation of TeX/LaTeX documents. Reads commands 
from the comment lines of the document and executes them automatically. Like 
'arara', but simpler.

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   http://mirror.ctan.org/support/try
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CTAN Announcements | 8 May 2013 12:47
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CTAN update: lualibs

the daemon wrote:

> Name of contribution: lualibs
> Author's name: Philipp Gesang
> Package version: 2.0 
> Location on CTAN: macros/luatex/generic/lualibs/
> Summary description: General purpose Lua libraries.
> License type: gpl
> 
> Files in yesterday’s upload were faulty. I apologize for the inconvenience.
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lualibs
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/lualibs/

ctan admin comment: the author did not ask for announcement, but i chose
to do one, given the problems with the previous upload.

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

Robin Fairbairns

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CTAN Announcements | 8 May 2013 12:44
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CTAN update: luaotfload

the daemon wrote:

> Name of contribution: luaotfload
> Author's name: Philipp Gesang
> Package version: 2.2
> Location on CTAN: macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/
> Summary description: font loader for Luatex
> License type: gpl
> 
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> major update: the imported code is in sync with Context again; the
> existing code base has been partially rewritten.
> 
> for a list of changes please refer to the NEWS file.
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/

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

Robin Fairbairns

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CTAN Announcements | 7 May 2013 19:49
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CTAN Update: ebgaramond

Bob Tennent submitted an update to the

  ebgaramond

package.

Summary description: LaTeX support for EBGaramond fonts.
License type: ofl

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Added silent substitutions for bold and bold extended, replacing a re-definition of \bfdefault.

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CTAN Announcements | 7 May 2013 19:48
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CTAN Update: plipsum

Sergio Spina submitted an update to the

  plipsum

package.

Summary description: 'Lorem ipsum' paragraphs generator for the purposes of the plain TeX developers.
License type: lppl

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Modified the inteface: added an optional parameter to choose between short, medium-lenght or long
paragraphs. Many cosmethyc changes.

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CTAN Announcements | 7 May 2013 19:46
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CTAN Update: acro

Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the

   acro

package.

Summary description: typeset acronyms
License type: lppl

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- new option `sort' to \printacronyms
- renamed options `print-acronyms/header' and `list-header'
  into `print-acronyms/heading' and `list-heading';
  the old keys will still work but also issue a warning
- new key `foreign' for acronyms in other languages than
  the document language
- the page-recording and printing mechanism for the page
  numbers of the acronyms in the list has been rewritten
  from scratch. The previous one had a fundamental flaw:
  it didn't take the fact into account that page numbers
  are stepped at shipout. This is fixed now.
- options `page-ranges' and `record-pages' are deprecated
- new options `following-page' and `following-pages'

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CTAN Announcements | 7 May 2013 19:45
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CTAN Update: luatexbase

Elie Roux submitted an update to the

  luatexbase

package.

Summary description: Resource management for the LuaTeX macro programmer
License type: pd

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2013/05/04 v0.6
    all
        - move away from the module() function (deprecated in Lua 5.2)
    attr
        - hack to make luatexbase and luatex.sty compatible for attribute allocation (same thing should be done
for catcodetables)
        - adding whatsit nodes allocation functions (see doc)
    modutils
        - adding functions to check the availability and version of a module
        - fixing small error in module date requirement
        - update documentation to reflect the move from module()
    loader
        - do not output included file paths when called by texlua
    mcb
        - passing most of the term output to the log

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CTAN Announcements | 7 May 2013 19:41
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CTAN Update: biblatex-mla

James Clawson submitted an update to the

  biblatex-mla

package.

Summary description: The package provides Biblatex support for citations in the format specified by the
MLA handbook.
License type: lppl

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 - compatibility with Biblatex 2.5
 - added entrytypes  <at> online,  <at> inbook,  <at> bookinbook
 - updated entrytypes  <at> video,  <at> review
 - added epprinttype "jstor"
 - added package options "noremoteinfo" and "mancitepar" 
 - added hyperref linking to "Web" bibstring
 - quashed lingering spacing errors, improved bibnamedash, and improved handling of starred autocites
 - improved documentation and examples

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