Extended loss of service at cam.ctan.org

2007-06-14 Thread Robin Fairbairns
The Cambridge CTAN services suffered an extended failure of their network support, from approx. 1130 BST yesterday morning (2007-06-13) to approx. 0715 BST this morning. (We have not yet had a coherent explanation of what went wrong, from our network service provider, but it is clear that the back

CTAN has a new package: templates-sommer

2007-06-14 Thread CTAN Announcements
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 Jörg Sommer submitted the the templates-sommer package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: info/templates/sommer License type: lppl Note that the templates-fenn package has been moved to info/templates-fenn Jörg writes: -

CTAN Update: libertine

2007-06-14 Thread CTAN Announcements
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 Michael Niedermair submitted an update to the libertine package, previously named linux-libertine. Libertine is a font family with a wide range of shapes, and support of several alphabets (including Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew). Location on CTAN: /fonts/libertine Su

CTAN Update: Version 1.18 of pgf/TikZ

2007-06-14 Thread CTAN Announcements
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 Till Tantau submitted version 1.18of his PGF/TikZ package. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf License: Mixed LPPL/GPL/FDL PGF is a macro package for creating graphics. It is platform- and format-independent and works together with the most important TeX backend drivers, i

CTAN Update: oberdiek bundle -- stringenc v1.0, catchfile v1.0

2007-06-14 Thread CTAN Announcements
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 at 12:10 +0200, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the oberdiek bundle. > New: > > * stringenc v1.0 > This package provides \StringEncodingConvert for converting > a string between different encodings. Both LaTeX and plain-TeX > are supported. > > * catchfil