CTAN Update: modiagram

Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the

  modiagram

package.

Summary description: Drawing molecular orbital diagrams
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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fix: adapt to deprecated expl3 commands

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For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf

CTAN Update: fixmetodonotes

Gioele Barabucci submitted an update to the

  fixmetodonotes

package.

Summary description: Tools to highlight FIXME and TODO annotations.
License type: pd

Announcement text: 
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Several bugfixes.

* Now notes use a namespaced counter (making fixmetodonotes compatible with Springer LNCS LaTeX classes).
* Fixed documentation wording for the definition of new notes.
* Fixed installation directory.

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   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fixmetodonotes
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New on CTAN: sansmathfonts

Ariel Barton submitted the

  sansmathfonts

package.

Summary description: Provides sans serif small caps and math fonts for use with Computer Modern
License type: lppl

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CTAN Update: ctable

Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the

  ctable

package.

Summary description: Flexible typesetting of table and figure floats using key/value directives
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
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- require xcolor instead of color
- added option bgopacity
- added option sidecap (for memoir only)

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   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ctable
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CTAN update: russianb (babel support for Russian)

the daemon reported:

> Name of contribution: russianb
> Author's name: Igor A. Kotelnikov
> Package version:  1.30a
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/russian/
> Summary description: Russian Language Definition File for Babel 3.9
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> version 1.3a
> Added the language attribute 'ancient' for typesetting old Slavonic and Church books.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/russianb
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://mirror.ctan.org//macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/russian/

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

i apologise for continuing delays in making announcements.  my health
remains unreliable, and slows me down a lot.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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New on CTAN: PythonTeX

the daemon reports:

> Name of contribution: PythonTeX
> Author's name: Geoffrey Poore

> Package version: 0.11
> Location on CTAN: /
> Summary description: Allows Python code entered within a LaTeX
>           document to be executed, and the output to be included in
>           the original document.
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The PythonTeX package allows you to enter Python code within a LaTeX
> document, execute the code, and access its output in the original
> document.
> 
> PythonTeX provides fast, user-friendly access to Python from within
> LaTeX.  Python code is only executed when it has been modified, or
> when it meets user-specified criteria.  Code may be divided into
> user-defined sessions, which automatically run in parallel.  Errors
> and warnings are synchronized with the LaTeX document, so that they
> refer to the document's line numbers.  External dependencies can be
> tracked, so that code is re-executed when the data it depends on is
> modified.  PythonTeX also provides syntax highlighting for code in
> LaTeX documents via the Pygments syntax highlighter.
> 
> PythonTeX includes a "depythontex" utility that creates a copy of a
> document in which all Python code has been replaced by its output.

CTAN update: ipaex-type1

the daemon reports:

> Name of contribution: ipaex-type1
> Author's name: Takayuki YATO
> Package version: 0.2a
> Location on CTAN: fonts/ipaex-type1/
> Summary description: IPAex Fonts converted to Type1-format Unicode subfonts
> License type: other-free
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> This package contains the IPAex Fonts converted into Unicode subfonts
> in Type1 format, which is most suitable for use with the CJK
> package. Font conversion was done with ttf2pt1.
> 
> This package is distributed under the “IPA Font License Agreement
> v1.0” (see LICENSE for detail), which is the same as the one under
> which the original fonts are licensed.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ipaex-type1
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ipaex-type1/

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

i apologise for continuing delays in making announcements.  my health
remains unreliable, and slows me down a lot.

CTAN update: verbatimbox

the daemon reports:

> Name of contribution: verbatimbox
> Author's name: Steven B. Segletes
> Package version:  3.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/verbatimbox/
> Summary description: Routines to put verbatim text in a box, used when
>           verbatim is inaccessible. Also, for adding vertical buffer
>           to an object.
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> The verbatimbox package has undergone a major overhaul.
> 
> The package allows verbatim material to be placed into LATEX boxes,
> for later recall. This function is useful in several situations, primarily in places
> where the verbatim environment is otherwise inaccessible (for example, in the
> midst of a tabular environment). It is also useful if a given verbatim text needs
> to be recalled multiple times within a document.
> 
> The introduction of the new myverbbox environment allows the user to
> place verbatim content in a box for which he chooses the name, thus
> allowing more than one verbatimbox to be in play at a time.
> 
> While there is application for its use within the verbatimbox
> application, this package also offers an independent command
> (\addvbuffer) for conveniently providing vertical buffer space above
> and below a LaTeX object.  The new optional argument allows one to
> specify the amount of buffer to add above and below the object.

CTAN update: ZXjafont

the daemon reports:

> Name of contribution: ZXjafont
> Author's name: Takayuki Yato
> Package version: 0.2a
> Location on CTAN: language/japanese/zxjafont/
> Summary description: Set up Japanese font families for XeLaTeX
> License type: other-free
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Minor bug fixes.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Announcement required: Yes
> 
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ZXjafont
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://mirror.ctan.org/language/japanese/zxjafont/

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

i apologise for continuing delays in making announcements.  my health
remains unreliable, and slows me down a lot.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

New on CTAN: esami

the daemon reports:

> Name of contribution: esami
> Author's name: Grazia Messineo and Salvatore Vassallo
> Package version: 1.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/
> Summary description: A package for typesetting exams with scrambled questions and answers
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package allows to typeset exams with multiple choice, open
> questions and many other types of exercise.  Both questions and
> answers can be randomly scrambled and the solutions are typeset
> automatically. Exercises can contain a wide number of random
> parameters and it is possible to do arithmetical operations on
> them. The package is localised in Italian, English, French, German,
> Greek and Spanish.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/esami
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/esami/

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

i apologise for continuing delays in making announcements.  my health
remains unreliable, and slows me down a lot.

Robin Fairbairns

CTAN Update: dvisvgm

Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the

  dvisvgm

package.

License type: gpl

Announcement text:
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dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. 

The recent release 1.2.2 is a bugfix release with the following most important changes:
- A bug that prevented the lookup of font map files has been fixed.
- Builds for MiKTeX now print a warning message rather than aborting with an exception if MiKTeX isn't installed.
- dvisvgm prints a warning message if PostScript specials were found but ignored because Ghostscript is
unavailable. 

For further information including a more detailed list of recent changes and 
pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project page 
http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net

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