CTAN Update: lipsum
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 Patrick Happel submitted an update to the lipsum package. Summary description: Typesetting 150 paragraphs of lorem ipsum dummy text License type: lppl Announcement text: -- Bug fix. If lipsum is used such that a new paragraph was introduced after typesetting a paragraph of lorem ipsum, errorneously a copy of \par as defined at the preamble was used (\let). Therefore, changes to \par did not take effect when using \lisum. This was fixed in this version. Thanks to Ulrike Fischer and Florent Chervet for reporting. -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/lipsum/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lipsum (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: nonumonpart
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 Yvon Henel submitted the nonumonpart package. Summary description: A wrapper for answer to FAQ: ``How to get rid of page numbers (with \part)'' License type: lppl Announcement text: -- NONUMONPART 1 2011-04-15 NONUMONPART = NO (page) NUMber ON PART title page A mere wrapper for answer to FAQ: ``How to get rid of page numbers (with \part)'' No option, no end user macro but redefinition of \@endpart to ensure an empty style page on part title pages. The code is taken from UK-FAQ. -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nonumonpart . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/nonumonpart (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: mychemistry
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the mychemistry package. Summary description: Create reaction schemes with LaTeX and ChemFig License type: lppl Announcement text: -- New in v1.4: - syntax of commands unified - new arrow type -+ - \merge improved: can be labeled now - \reactand renamed into \reactant (consistent with correct english spelling) - bufixes -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mychemistry/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mychemistry (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: xlop
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 Jean-Côme Charpentier submitted an update to the xlop package. Summary description: Xtra Large OPerations (process and display operations) License type: lppl Announcement text: -- Xlop (eXtra Large OPeration) will typeset arithmetic operation either in-line or as in school (using French school conventions). So for example, \opadd{2}{3} can give either $2+3=5$ or something similar to: \begin{tabular}{r} 2\\ +3\\ \hline 5\end{tabular}. This release fix two bugs: * displayed multiplcation * macro \opexport -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/xlop/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xlop (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: ctable
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the ctable package. Summary description: key/value driven table and figure floats License type: lppl Announcement text: -- ctable.sty provides commands to easily typeset centered or left or right aligned tables and (multiple-)figure floats, with footnotes. Instead of an environment, a command with 4 arguments is used; the first is optional and is used for key,value pairs generating variations on the defaults and offering a route for future extensions. -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ctable . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ctable (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: siunitx
that ol' daemon's been having an easy time of it, recently, but... 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: -- v2.2a: - Bug fix for * syntax in tables - Bug fix for expanding macros with arguments inside tables - Group digits in numbers containing symbols - Deal with end-of-row cells where last item is not \\ thanks for the upload; i've installed the replacement files, 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 catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann