CTAN submission: pstricks update and contributed packages

Reinhard Zierke zierke at dante.de
Tue May 18 13:56:54 CEST 2004


I installed an update for CTAN:graphics/pstricks and the two contributed
packages graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add and
graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-geo by Herbert Voss.  According to a personal
e-mail from Herbert, he has been approved by Timothy van Zandt as current
pstricks maintainer.

Name of contribution: pstricks
Name and email: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at perce.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/generic
Summary description: PSTricks - TeX and PostScript
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
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This is the pstricks.tex 97-patch 15
It has the new macros 
\psellipticarc
\psellipticarcn
\psellipticwedge
and the options eofill (similiar to PostScript) and the
modfied dash option.

please install the files into the following directories
README -> graphics/pstricks/README
pstricks.pro -> graphics/pstricks/dvips
pst-all.sty  -> graphics/pstricks/latex
pstricks.sty -> graphics/pstricks/latex
pst-news97-15.tex -> graphics/pstricks/doc
pst-news97-15.pdf -> graphics/pstricks/doc
pstricks.tex -> graphics/pstricks/generic
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Name of contribution: pstricks-add
Name and email: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at perce.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add
Summary description: Additional macros
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
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- This version has one new option for drawing coordinate 
  axis -> ticklines (see doc))
- All the stuff, which went into pstricks - patch 15 is now
  no more available in this package 
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Name of contribution: pst-geo
Name and email: Manuel  Luque, Giuseppe Matarazzo, Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at perce.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/pst-geo
Summary description: Geographical Projections
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
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- new database of cities
- some more improvements
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Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team



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