New CTAN Package: tikzpfeile
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 Michael Fütterer and Jonathan Zachhuber submitted the tikzpfeile package. Summary description: A LaTeX package for drawing arrows using PGF/TikZ License type: lppl Announcement text: -- In mathematical texts that contain commutative diagrams created with PGF/TikZ, it might be disturbing that regular arrows (such as \rightarrow) and the PGF/TikZ arrows in the diagrams have different heads. This package defines commands that draw arrows using PGF/TikZ. Using these instead of the regular arrows makes your document look more consistent. Moreover, using PGF/TikZ, a lot more different arrow types can be drawn. -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikzpfeile . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tikzpfeile (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: nicefilelist
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the nicefilelist package. Summary description: \listfiles alignment with date and version columns License type: lppl Announcement text: -- * reimplementation: file info processed while \typeout (i.e., by pure expansion) * alignment of *File List* and stars fixed for less than 11 base name characters * README fixed -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nicefilelist . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/nicefilelist (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
New CTAN package: bitelist
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 Uwe Lück submitted the bitelist package. Summary description: split list at list inside in TeX's mouth License type: lppl Announcement text: -- `bitelist.sty' provides commands for splitting a token list at the first occurrence of a contained token list. I.e., for given token lists s, t return b and shortest a, such that t = a s b. As opposed to other packages providing similar features, (i) the method uses TeX's mechanism of reading delimited macro parameters; (ii) the splitting macros work by pure expansion, without assignments, provided the macro doing the search has been defined before processing (e.g., a file); (iii) instead of using one macro for a substring test and another one to replace the substring--which includes extracting corresponding prefix and suffix--, the *same* macro that detects the occurrence returns the split; (iv) e-TeX is not required. (And LaTeX is not required.) This improves `fifinddo.sty' (v0.51). An elaborated approach (additionally to a simpler one) is provided that does not loose outer braces of prefix/suffix. Substring detection and string replacement are (implicitly) included with respect to certain representations of characters by tokens. Counting occurrences and global replacement could be achieved by applying the operation to earlier results, etc.--so this approach seems to be fundamental for a certain larger set of list analysis tasks. The documentation aims to prove the correctness of the methods with mathematical rigour. KEYWORDs: macro programming, text filtering, substrings RELATED PACKAGEs: datatool, stringstrings, ted, texapi, xstring -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/bitelist . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/bitelist (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: nameauth
the daemon wrote: The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: nameauth Author's name: Charles P. Schaum Package version: 1.2 Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/ Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and flexibility in body text and index. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: -- I am pleased to announce version 1.2, which adds index entry tagging to the feature list. The documentation has been edited with best practices in mind. Functional units deal with naming, variants, and indexing, with applications in each section proceeding from simple to complex. User comments are most welcome. 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/nameauth.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/ The catalogue entry changed (somewhat) on the web, on tuesday morning. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
CTAN update: beamer
the daemon calls out: The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: beamer Author's name: Joseph Wright Package version: 3.16 Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/beamer/ Summary description: A LaTeX class for producing presentations and slides License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: -- v3.16: - Restore some files missed out of CTAN distribution - Improve biblatex support - Add a template for label/caption separator in figures, etc. 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/beamer.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
