CTAN Update: nicetext
Uwe Lück submitted an update to the nicetext package. Summary description: Minimal markup for documentation, text filtering, ... License type: lppl Announcement text: -- * `makedoc.cfg' (documentation settings and utilities) enhanced (`filedate', code input), documented in `makedoc.pdf' * `mdoccorr.cfg' (typographical replacement rules) code more readable (in `makedoc.pdf' as well) -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nicetext . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/nicetext (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: lshort-german
Patrick Gundlach and Marco Daniel submitted an update to the lshort-german package. Location on CTAN: /info/lshort/german Summary description: Complete overhaul of the German short introduction to LaTeX License type: opl Announcement text: -- The German short introduction to LaTeX has been enhanced in many ways to reflect the curent selection of packages and practices (encodings, listings, math). -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/info/lshort/german . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lshort-german (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 on CTAN: pdftricks2
Christian Reibiger submitted the pdftricks package Summary description: A LaTeX package to use PSTricks code with PDF output. License type: gpl Announcement text: -- This package provides automatization facilities to use the pstricks package with pdflatex. It is intended to be of easy use and interoperability with latex and pdflatex, namely both show the same result. The pdftricks2 package circumvents the problem that pdflatex can not handle ps-code by writing an extra latex file that contains only the figure. This files are converted to dvi to ps and then to pdf. Finally the resulting pdf-pictures are included in the text as a graphic. This process can be handled automatically by the package but it needs to have the possibility to execute system commands (start pdflatex with option--enable-write18 or -shell-escape). If you do not want to grant this rights you still can use the package but you have to execute a shell script the package writes yourself to produce the pdf-pictures. In this case you have to run pdftex again to include the pictures in your document. The package tries to show the same results when used with latex as for pdflatex. However there are some side effects of using this package as described in the documentation. Although this package is inspired by the pdftricks package, it is coded from scratch. The pdftricks package has some flaws that are circumvented by pdftricks2. For example you have to gather all configurations you need for your pictures in one place. Furthermore it is not possible to share configuration code between your figures and the main text. Also the pdftricks package does not use the provided limits of the figure you produce but rather assumes it fits on a standard page and cuts everything away that does not look like being important. -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pdftricks2 . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdftricks2 (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: The mkstmpdad Bundle
the daemon comes to confuse me, again: The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: The mkstmpdad Bundle Author's name: D. P. Story Package version: 1.0 Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mkstmpdad/ Summary description: Create custom stamps, and use them for drag and drop matching License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: -- mkstmpdad contains two packages, both require Adobe Distiller as a PDF creator. mkstmp_pro is a simple workflow for creating custom stamps that are used for making comments. aeb_dad is used to create a DAD Matching Game (DAD=Drag and Drop) that uses stamps and push buttons. DAD Matching works in any version of Acrobat, and in Adobe Reader XI. One of the features of ARXI is that it now fully supports commenting (and saving fill in forms). This is the feature that inspired aeb_dad. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/mkstmpdad.html or they may browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mkstmpdad/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
CTAN update: newunicodechar
quoth the daemon: The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: newunicodechar Author's name: Enrico Gregorio Package version: 1.1 Location on CTAN: macros/latex/newunicodechar/ Summary description: Definitions of the meaning of Unicode characters License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: -- The package now supports the package inputenx in addition to inputenc (in pdflatex mode) thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/newunicodechar.html or they may browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/newunicodechar/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
CTAN update: annot_pro
The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: annot_pro Author's name: D. P. Story Author's email: dpst...@uakron.edu Package version: 1.0b Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/annot_pro/ Summary description: This package is used to create text, stamp, and file attachment annotations using Adobe Distiller, which can then be viewed in Adobe Reader. License type: lppl thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/annot_pro.html or they may browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/annot_pro/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
CTAN update: latexmk
quoth the daemon: The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: latexmk Author's name: John Collins Package version: 4.35 Location on CTAN: support/latexmk/ Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: -- 1. Correct bug in parsing fls file when running cygwin with native MS-Windows TeX system. 2. Correct bug of retaining out-of-date dependency information when using --gg option. 3. Correct non-optimality of making unnecessary runs of latex when latex reads a file only after writing it. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/latexmk.html or they may browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latexmk/ 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 beamed his little light upon me, and said: The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: beamer Author's name: Joseph Wright Package version: v3.24 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: -- v3.24: - Extend \includeonlylecture to allow comma-separated lists - Add new monarca colour theme - Better handling of items with action specs - Fix handling of arguments which start - Some documentation tweaks -- thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/beamer.html or they may browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
CTAN update: pst-solides3d
Herbert Voss wrote: I have uploaded pst-solides3d.zip to the uk mirror. Please replace the files with the ones in the directory /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solides3d/ pst-solides3d is a collection of PSTricks macros to threedimensional objects with hidden lines and hidden surfaces. pst-solides3d.tex|.pro --- 4.24 2011-11-13 - take value of resolution into account thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-solides3d.html or browse the package's directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solides3d/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
