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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

Announcement text: 
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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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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-mla
.  More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-mla
(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 | 5 May 2013 10:57
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CTAN Update: feynmp-auto

Enrico Gregorio submitted an update to the

  feynmp-auto

package.

Summary description: Automatic processing of feynmp graphics
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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Version 1.1 adds a `force' option for disabling the MD-5 checks normally used for avoiding useless
METAPOST runs

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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/feynmp-auto
.  More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/feynmp-auto
(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
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CTAN Announcements | 5 May 2013 10:56
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CTAN Update: logicpuzzle

Josef Kleber submitted an update to the

  logicpuzzle

package.

Summary description: Typesetting logic puzzles
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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The logicpuzzle bundle allows you to typeset various logic
puzzles. At the moment the following puzzles are supported:

* 2D-Sudoku (aka Magiequadrat, Diagon, ...)
* Battleship (aka Bimaru, Marinespiel, Batalla Naval, ...)
* Bokkusu (aka Kakurasu, Feldersummenrätsel, ...)
* Chaos Sudoku
* Hakyuu (aka Seismic, Ripple Effect, ...)
* Hitori
* Kendoku (aka Mathdoku, Calcudoku, Basic, MiniPlu, Ken Ken,
               Square Wisdom, Sukendo, Caldoku, ...)
* Killer Sudoku (aka Samunapure, Sum Number Place, Sumdoku,
                     Gebietssummen, ...)
* Laser Beam (aka Laserstrahl, ...)
* Minesweeper (aka Minensuche, ...) 
* Skyline (aka Skycrapers, Wolkenkratzer, Hochhäuser, ...)
  incl. Skyline Sudoku and Skyline Sudoku (N*N) variants
* Slitherlink (aka Fences, Number Line, Dotty Dilemma,
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CTAN Announcements | 4 May 2013 21:22
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CTAN update: tocloft

the daemon reports:

> Name of contribution: tocloft
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Package version: 2.3f
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tocloft/
> Summary description: Control over the Table of Contents, List of
>           Figures/Tables, and creating new lists. 
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> After a long delay, a number of improvements have been made to Peter
> Wilson's tocloft package. Unfortunately I've not been able to attend
> to all requests at this stage. Full change notes below.
> 
> Changes in version 2.3f (2013/05/02)
> - (Try to) support KOMA and titlesec packages w.r.t. \part entries
> - Extraneous whitespace fixes
> - Doc explanation of removing between-chapter space in LoF, LoT
> - Add \cftpnumalign to specify alignment of the page number in its box
> - Prevent some "Dimension too large" issues with large font sizes and
>   a "no dots" ToC design. 
> - Bug fix for the macro used to store the extension filename for new
>   "lists of" 
> - Doc typos fixed thanks to Kevin Godby
> 
> Thanks to Andre Pinkert, Florent Chervet, Stephan Stiller, Matthew
> Skala, Simon Verleger, Leo Liu, Haruyuki Kawabe, and Axel Sommerfeldt
> for suggesting all of the changes above and my apologies for the slow
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CTAN Announcements | 4 May 2013 21:19
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CTAN update: dcpic

the daemon reported:

> Name of contribution: dcpic
> Author's name: Pedro Quaresma
> Package version:  5.0.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/generic/diagrams/
> Summary description: Commutative diagrams in a LaTeX or TeX documents. 
> License type: lppl
> 
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Thanks to Xingliang Liang. He added a new arrow "dotArrow".
> The base scale of the graph has changed from 1pt to .1pt to solve a
> problem with the implementation of the oblique equalline (Thanks to
> Antonio de Nicola).
> The LaTeX circle and oval commands where replaced by the PiCTeX
> circulararc and ellipticalarc commands to avoid differences in
> scales. 

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.ctan.org/pkg/dcpic
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/diagrams/

Robin Fairbairns
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CTAN Announcements | 3 May 2013 21:10
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New on CTAN: raleway

Silke Hofstra submitted the

  raleway

package.

Summary description: Use Raleway with TeX(-alike) systems
License type: ofl

Announcement text:
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This package provides the Raleway font family as a LaTeX package. For XeTeX and LuaTeX users the original
OpenType fonts are used.
Full documentation and revision history in `raleway.pdf`.

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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/raleway
.  More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/raleway
(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 May 2013 21:09
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CTAN Update: xint

Jean-François Burnol submitted an update to the

  xint

package.

Summary description: Expandable operations on long numbers
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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   Release 1.05a fixes a wrong affirmation and a broken link in
   the documentation of 1.05, and removes five or six strange
   \expandafter's from the code.

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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/xint
.  More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xint
(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 May 2013 21:08
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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: censor

Steven B. Segletes submitted an update to the

   censor

package.

Summary description: Tools for Producing Redacted Documents
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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The censor package has been upgraded to V3.10.  With this release, the \blackout 
command will now work across paragraph boundaries.  Additionally, \xblackout has 
been introduced, to provide blacking for interword spaces and periods, which is 
not supported by the basic \blackout command.  Users have the option of which 
form to use.

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This package is located at
    http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/censor
.  More information is at
    http://www.ctan.org/pkg/censor
(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 May 2013 12:13
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CTAN update: enotez

the daemon reports:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: enotez
> Author's name: Clemens Niederberger
> Package version: 0.7
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/enotez/
> Summary description: Endnotes for LaTeX2e
> License type: lppl
> 
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - new option `backref' adds links from the notes in the list
>   back to the notes in the text (needs `hyperref' loaded)
> - new: \AtEveryListSplit, \AfterEveryListSplit,
>   \EnotezCurrentSplitTitle
> - new option: `list-heading'
> 
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/enotez
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/enotez/

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

Robin Fairbairns
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CTAN Announcements | 3 May 2013 12:10
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CTAN update: abnTeX2

the daemon alerted the ctan team:

> Name of contribution: abnTeX2
> Author's name: Lauro Cesar Araujo
> Package version:  1.6.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/abntex2/
> Summary description: Typeset technical and scientific Brazilian documents based on ABNT rules
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>   2013/04/30 - v1.6.1
>    . fixed use of different languages on example and documentation 
>      files: option "brazil" must be on documentclass
>    . added visual enhancements on documentation files
>    . changed the name of documentation files:
>      from: "Manual de uso dos estilos bibliográficos do pacote abntex2cite: 
>             estilos bibtex compatíveis com a ABNT NBR 6023"
>        to: "O pacote abntex2cite: Estilos bibliográficos compatíveis com a ABNT NBR 6023"
>      from: "Manual de uso do pacote abntex2cite: tópicos específicos da 
>             ABNT NBR 10520:2002 e o estilo bibliográfico alfabético (sistema autor-data)"
>        to: "O pacote abntex2cite: Tópicos específicos da ABNT NBR 10520:2002 e o 
>             estilo bibliográfico alfabético (sistema autor-data)"
>    . added information about bibliographies on examples.              
> 
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/abnTeX2
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/abntex2/
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CTAN Announcements | 3 May 2013 12:09
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New on CTAN (afaict): parsitex

the daemon reported:

> Name of contribution: parsitex
> Author's name: Persian TeX Group
> Package version: 3.10
> Location on CTAN: systems/parsitex/
> Summary description: A localized Persian and bidirectional extension of TeX
> License type: pd
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The ParsiTeX engine is a localized Persian and bidirectional extension of TeX.
> It is based on TeX--XeT algorithm of Knuth but does not have any of the limitations of
> the TeX--XeT included in etex. For the details of changes please look at parsitex.pdf.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Announcement required: Yes

you friendly neighbourhood archivist notes that parsitex is distributed
as a change file "on" current tex.

> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/parsitex
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/parsitex/

thanks for the upload; i installed the package and created an entry in
the catalogue repository.

Robin Fairbairns
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