CTAN update: xpdfopen 0.82
the daemon tells us: The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: xpdfopen 0.82 Author's name: Jim Diamond Location on CTAN: /support/xpdfopen Summary description: Add version number information to programs, improve man page. License type: other-free Announcement text given by the package's contributor: -- xpdfopen provides pdfopen and pdfclose programs for X11 systems (at least GNU/Linux). This version adds version information to the programs and a considerably improved man page. 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/xpdfopen.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/xpdfopen/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
CTAN package update: toptesi
the daemon said, just as i left work: The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: toptesi Author's name: Claudio Beccari Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/toptesi Summary description: A complete package for bachelor, master and PhD theses with a multilingual approach License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: -- The package has been upgraded to version 5.5; some auxiliary packages contents have been included into the main extension file and the various university logos have been eliminated in order to avoid legal questions with their owners. thanks for the upload; i have 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/toptesi.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/toptesi/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
CTAn Update: thumbs
On Thu, 26 May 2011 H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the thumbs package. Summary description: Bug fix License type: lppl Announcement text: -- Bug fix: labels or index or glossary entries were gobbled for the thumb marks overview page, but gobbling leaked to the rest of the document; fixed. New option draft for the thumbs package. -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/thumbs/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/thumbs (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 . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
CTAN Update: Asymptote
On Fri, 27 May 2011 John Bowman submitted an update to the asymptote package. Summary description: 2D 3D TeX-aware vector graphics language License type: lgpl Announcement text: -- PRC vertex-shading for straight patches was implemented. A general image routine that uses a pen function of two integer parameters was implemented. A 3D pixel routine was added. A temporary expression is now used to avoid side effects in self operators. Keyword-only function arguments were implemented. The sizing routines were recoded. Bugs in drawline and geometry were fixed. The geometry module no longer overloads the built-in circle and ellipse functions. PDF TeX engines are now supported in xasy. Directory prefixes are no longer stripped from .js and .prc file names. The TeXShop instructions were updated. The asymptote.sty LaTeX style file was updated to allow leading spaces before \end{asy} and to introduce a keepAspect keyval option. Segmentation faults were fixed. Unwanted state-dependency was removed from the startTrembling function of the contributed trembling module by introducing a tremble structure (backwards incompatible change); see the example floatingdis! -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (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 . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann