CTAN update: ucs
CTAN Announcements
ctan-ann at dante.de
Wed Aug 29 23:41:08 CEST 2012
the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: ucs
> Author's name: Wolfgang Jeltsch
> Package version: 2.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ucs/
> Summary description: Extended UTF-8 input encoding support for LaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The bundle provides the ucs package, and utf8x.def, together with a
> large number of support files.
>
> The utf8x.def definition file for use with inputenc covers a wider
> range of Unicode characters than does utf8.def in the LaTeX
> distribution. The package provides facilities for efficient use of its
> large sets of Unicode characters.
>
> Glyph production may be controlled by various options, which permits
> use of non-ASCII characters when coding mathematical formulae.
>
> Note that the bundle previously had an alias "unicode"; that alias has
> now been withdrawn, and no package of that name now exists.
>
> The authors are Wolfgang Jeltsch and Dominique Unruh. The package is
> Copyright 2011,2012 Wolfgang Jeltsch.
>
> Updates for this version:
> -- Added support for various arrows, musical notes and
> NON-BREAKING HYPHEN
> -- minor bug fixes
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/ucs.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ucs/
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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