CTAN update: hyph-utf8

2010-05-28 Thread CTAN Announcements
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: hyph-utf8
Version number: 2010.05.28
Author's name: Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer
Location on CTAN: /language/hyph-utf8/
Summary description: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8
License type: other-free

Announcement text: 
--
Important change:
- NEW: support for advanced LuaTeX & LuaLaTeX loading of patterns
  (they are not dumped into format, but loaded on demand)
  maintained by Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard and Élie Roux 
- NEW: plain version of patterns and exceptions
  (one pattern/exception per line)

Other news:
- NEW: Armenian (Sahak Petrosyan) and Lao patterns (Brian Wilson)
- UPDATE: Spanish (Javier Bezos), Galician (Javier A. Múgica)
  and Italian patterns (Claudio Beccari)
- new: sources and documentation for Spanish patterns
- new: more documentation

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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyph-utf8/
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8
(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 update: luaotfload

2010-05-28 Thread CTAN Announcements
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: luaotfload
Version number: 1.08
Author's name: Khaled Hosny
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
--
* fix misc. bugs with system fonts scanning
* parse fontconfig configuration directly, no longer
dependant on 'fc-list'
* now if no font names database is found, luaotfload will
generate it, also
  it will force an update of the database if the asked font
can not be
  found
* avoid loading non-tfm fonts when the user asks for tfm font
* update the documentation
* blacklist .ttc and LastResort font on mac.
* sync with ConTeXt beta 2010.05.22
* fix attribute handling
* clarify license
* misc. bug fixes
--

This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload
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CTAN update: lualibs

2010-05-28 Thread CTAN Announcements
Wthin a day this should be at your local mirror.

Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College



The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: lualibs
Version number: 0.94
Author's name: Khaled Hosny
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Lualibs is a collection of Lua modules useful for general 
programming. 
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
--
Sync with ConTeXt, adding new function required by latest
luaotfload.
--

This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/lualibs
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/lualibs
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CTAN update: autolatex

2010-05-28 Thread CTAN Announcements
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: autolatex
Version number: 8.3
Author's name: Stephane GALLAND
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Bug fix in command line options
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
--
Command option '-f' is documented but not supported by
source code.
This option was added into the list of the explicitly
supported options to fix this bug.
--

This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/autolatex
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/autolatex
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CTAN update: siunitx

2010-05-28 Thread CTAN Announcements
the daemon reports:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: siunitx
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/
> Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> --
> Maintenance release v2.0a:
>  - Make \SendSettingsToPgf available in document body
>  - Automatically detect use of version 1 options and 
>load backward-compatibility code
>  - Fix problem with "free-standing" units
>  - Fix a number of bugs in version-1 configuration file
>  - Include high energy physics units in documentation
>and version-1 configuration file

thanks for the upload.  i have installed it, and updated the catalogue
repository.

> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/

the updated catalogue entry will appear on the web some time tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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