CTAN update: nameauth

2012-04-20 Thread CTAN Announcements 
the daemon muttered:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Package version: 1.22
> 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:
> --
> This maintenance release allows capitalization of particles in
> mononyms, e.g., du Cange, to be capitalized in first references.

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 will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning.

Robin Fairbairns

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New on CTAN: pgf-blur

2012-04-20 Thread CTAN Announcements 
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Martin Giese submitted the 

  pgf-blur

package.

Summary description: pgf-blur adds blurred/faded/fuzzy shadows to TikZ/PGF
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
--
pgf-blur is a library for the TikZ/PGF graphics package.
It adds blurred/faded/fuzzy shadows to TikZ/PGF.

The method is similar to the pst-blur package for PSTricks (and the author is 
the same)
--

This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgf-blur
.  More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgf-blur
(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

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CTAN Update: tcolorbox

2012-04-20 Thread CTAN Announcements 
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the

  tcolorbox

package.


Summary description: colored text boxes, LaTeX examples, theorems, documentation
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
--
new library 'skins' added for changing the colorbox appearance
--

This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tcolorbox
.  More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tcolorbox
(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.

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  Rainer Schöpf

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New on CTAN: LuaTeX-ja

2012-04-20 Thread CTAN Announcements 
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Hironori Kitagawa submitted the

  luatex-ja

package.


Summary description: A macro package for typesetting Japanese documents with 
Lua(La)TeX
License type: other-free

Announcement text: 
--
The LuaTeX-ja package is a macro package for 
typesetting Japanese documents with Lua(La)TeX. 
This package supports both the plain format and LaTeX2e.

Developed by the LuaTeX-ja project.

Note that this package is still alpha stage.

--

This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/luatexja
.  More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/luatex-ja
(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.

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  Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload and rename: "ucs" replaces "unicode"

2012-04-20 Thread CTAN Announcements 
the daemon alerts me to an eagerly awaited upload:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: ucs
> Author's name: Wolfgang Jeltsch
> Package version: 2.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ucs/
> Summary description: Extended UTF-8 input encoding support for LaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
>=20
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> --
> The ucs package provides advanced support for using UTF-8 as the input
> encoding of LaTeX files.  It goes much beyond the standard UTF-8
> support of LaTeX.  For example, it supports much more characters,
> provides facilities for efficiently handling this large number of
> characters, and allows glyph production to be controlled by various
> options.  As a result, the ucs package is also suitable for using
> non-ASCII characters when entering mathematical formulas.=20
>
> Before version 2.0, the ucs package was called =91unicode=92 in certain
> contexts.  Starting with version 2.0, it should always be called =91ucs=
=92.

thanks for the upload; i've installed the package as if it were new, and
made an entry for it in the catalogue repository.

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

The new catalogue entry will have appeared on the web by tomorrow
morning.

Robin Fairbairns

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