CTAN update: paratype
the daemon reported: The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: paratype Author's name: Pavel Farar Package version: 2014-02-02 Location on CTAN: fonts/ Summary description: LaTeX support for free fonts by ParaType License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: -- - Added OT2 encoding. Now, you can write some cyrillic text using the Latin transcription. -- Announcement required: Yes Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/paratype or they may browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
CTAN update: mhchem
the daemon reported: Name of contribution: mhchem Author's name: Martin Hensel Package version: 2014-02-01 Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/ Summary description: for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical equations, H and P Statements, and Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: -- 2014-02-01 mhchem v3.15 - follow the IUPAC Red Book more closely (staggered superscripts) - rewrote large parts using LaTeX3, needs package expl3 - added: \bond{1}, \bond{2}, \bond{3} (because # cannot be used in all contexts) -- Announcement required: Yes Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mhchem or they may browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/ thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
New on CTAN: perfectcut
the daemon reported: Name of contribution: perfectcut Author's name: Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni Package version: 1.9 Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/perfectcut Summary description: Brackets whose size adjusts to the nesting License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: -- This package defines the command \perfectcut#1#2 which displays a bracket #1||#2. Its effect is to determine the size of the bracket depending on the number of nested \perfectcut (regardless of the contents). It is intended for use: - In proof theory, for term notations of sequent calculus, - In computer science, for the modeling of abstract machines. This package also offers a reimplementation of \big, \bigg, etc. into arbitrary-size variants. -- Announcement required: Yes Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/perfectcut or they may browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/perfectcut/ thanks for the upload; i've installed the new package, and made an entry for it in the catalogue repository. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
CTAN Update: datatool
Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the datatool package. Version number: 2.20 License type: lppl Summary description: Tools to load and manipulate data Announcement text: -- New commands: - \DTLloaddbtex - \DTLifnullorempty - \DTLassignfirstmatch - \xDTLassignfirstmatch Minor bug fixes. -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/datatool/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/datatool (due to a known bug in our software this page shows a slightly outdated view of our Catalogue data) This older, but more reliable view shows the correct data: http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/datatool.html 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
New on CTAN: The rubik bundle
Apostolos Syropoulos and RWD Nickalls submitted the rubik bundle. Version number: 2.0 License type: lppl Summary description: Packages that draw the rubik cube Announcement text: -- The \rubikcube\ package provides LaTeX commands and macros for typesetting Rubik cube (3x3x3) notation, configurations, and rotation sequences using the TikZ graphic language. The \rubikrotation\ package is an extension for the rubikcube package. It provides the \RubikRotation command which processes on-the-fly a sequence of Rubik rotation moves (using the Perl script rubikrotation.pl) and returns the new Rubik cube state. -- These packages are located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/rubik/ More information will some day appear at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/rubik http://www.ctan.org/pkg/rubikcube http://www.ctan.org/pkg/rubikrotation (i.e. when another nasty bug afflicting our website will have been squashed.) In the meantime, try: http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/rubik.html http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/rubikcube.html http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/rubikrotation.html There is no known reason why these pages should not appear quite soon (hopefully tomorrow). 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
CTAN Update: eledmac-eledpar
Maïeul Rouquette submitted an update to the eledmac-eledpar package. Version number: 1.8.3-1.6.0 License type: lppl Summary description: Typeset scholarly editions Announcement text: -- This release fixes spurious spaces, added by 1.7.0, which has made bad justification of text. -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eledmac/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/eledmac http://www.ctan.org/pkg/eledpar Unfortunately, these two pages are not quite up to date, due to a bug in the software behind our dynamic web pages. The following, more traditional views of the information in our Catalogue give a more reliable picture: http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/eledmac.html http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/eledpar.html 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann