TL 2010 available

2010-09-13 Thread CTAN Announcements 
karl berry writes:

> We've gone ahead with the network release of TeX Live 2010.  It is now
> or will be soon available from CTAN sites
> (http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive).  As with last year, we
> recommend doing a network install in one way or another instead of
> downloading the large (2gb) ISO -- http://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html.
> 
> Package updates will start propagating in another day or two.
> 
> If anyone notices stale or missing information on the TL web pages, or
> problems with the release, please report as usual.
> 
> MacTeX 2010 has also been released and is available from CTAN.  Its web
> pages will be updated soon.
> 
> The TeX Collection DVD will be released as soon as possible; hopefully,
> it will go out in October.  Issues with it (unrelated to TL) made me
> decide it was not desirable to delay the TL release any longer.

i believe ctan and its mirrors have more or less settled down with the
new release.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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CTAN has a new package: mdputu

2010-09-13 Thread CTAN Announcements 
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: mdputu
Version number: 1.0
Author's name: Boris Veytsman
Location on CTAN: /fonts/mdputu
Summary description: Unslanted Digits in Adobe Utopia Italics
License type: other-free

Announcement text: 
--
The Annals of Mathematics uses italics for theorems. 
However, slanted digits and parentheses look disturbing when surrounded by
(upright) math.  This package provides virtual fonts with italics and
upright digits and punctuation.
--

This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/mdputu
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mdputu
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
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CTAN Update: overpic

2010-09-13 Thread CTAN Announcements 
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update to the

  overpic

package.

Summary description: Package for overwriting graphics
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
--
Reset the graphics parameter after including the main graphic.
--

This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/overpic/
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=overpic
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf
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CTAN update: luaotfload

2010-09-13 Thread CTAN Announcements 
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: luaotfload
Version number: 1.19
Author's name: Khaled Hosny
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: OpenType layout system for Plain TeX and LaTeX
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
--
fix LaTeX's detection (made Tikz fail under a non-LaTeX format)
--

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: geometry

2010-09-13 Thread CTAN Announcements 
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: geometry
Version number: 5.6
Author's name: Hideo Umeki
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/geometry
Summary description: Flexible and complete interface to document dimensions
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
--
Release 5.6
  * Package 'ifxetex' is loaded for robuster detection of XeTeX.
  * Fixed a bug where 'pass' option was not reset in \newgeometry.
--

This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/geometry
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   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/geometry
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CTAN update: punknova

2010-09-13 Thread CTAN Announcements 
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: Punk Nova font
Version number: 1.002
Author's name: Khaled Hosny
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: OpenType version of Don Knuth's Punk font
License type: other-free

Announcement text: 
--
* Add slanted and bold slanted fonts.
* Split the MP sources into base and drivers
--

This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/punknova
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   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/punknova
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