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pst-spinner in graphics/pstricks The Treasure Chest Drawing fidget spinner toys in PSTricks. pst-vehicle in graphics/pstricks/contrib Rolling vehicles on mathematically-defined curves. spectralsequences in graphics/pgf/contrib This is a selection of the new packages posted to Spectral sequence diagrams in TikZ. CTAN (ctan.org) from March–July 2017, with de- tikzcodeblocks in graphics/pgf/contrib scriptions based on the announcements and edited Code blocks like scratch, NEPO, and PXT in for extreme brevity. TikZ. Entries are listed alphabetically within CTAN directories. More information about any package info can be found at ctan.org/pkg/pkgname. A few * biblatex-cheatsheet in info entries which the editors subjectively believe to be Cheat sheet for BibLATEX/Biber. of especially wide interest or otherwise notable are studies-lm in info/german starred; of course, this is not intended to slight the Interactive LATEX course material, in German. other contributions. We hope this column and its companions will help to make CTAN a more accessible resource to the language/japanese TEX community. See also ctan.org/topic. Com- bxjaprnind in language/japanese/BX ments are welcome, as always. Support Japanese typesetting conventions for open parentheses.  Karl Berry pxufont in language/japanese tugboat (at) tug dot org Emulate non-Unicode Japanese fonts using Unicode fonts. biblio ltb2bib in biblio macros/generic Convert amsrefs .ltb to BibTEX .bib. hlist in macros/generic Horizontal and columned lists. dviware ifptex in macros/generic dviinfox in dviware Check if engine is pTEX or a derivative. Dump information about DVI and XDV files.

macros//contrib fonts actuarialsymbol in macros/latex/contrib algolrevived in fonts Actuarial symbols for life contingencies and financial Revival of Frutiger’s font designed in 1963 for mathematics. code blocks in the Algol manual. biochemistry-colors in macros/latex/contrib alkalami in fonts Define the standard colors used in biochemistry. Font from SIL for Arabic-based writing systems in bredzenie in macros/latex/contrib Nigeria and Niger. Polish variant for “lorem ipsum” sample text. jfmutil in fonts/utilities bxcalc in macros/latex/contrib Process JFM and VF files used in (u)pT X. E Extends calc for user-defined units and usability shobhika in fonts in more contexts. OpenType Devanagari font designed for scholars. bxorigcapt in macros/latex/contrib Retain document class’s names \chaptername, graphics \today, etc., overriding babel. ladder in graphics/pgf/contrib childdoc in macros/latex/contrib Simple ladder diagrams in TikZ. Compile \include files directly. mptrees in graphics/metapost/contrib/macros cje in macros/latex/contrib Probability trees in MetaPost. Support for the Canadian Journal of Economics. pst-geometrictools in graphics/pstricks/contrib correctmathalign in macros/latex/contrib Protractor, ruler, compass, etc. symbols in PSTricks. Better horizontal spacing for some math expressions pst-poker in graphics/pstricks/contrib in alignments. Customizable poker cards in PSTricks. currency in macros/latex/contrib pst-rputover in graphics/pstricks/contrib Format currencies consistently, using siunitx. Place text over PSTricks objects without obscuring draftfigure in macros/latex/contrib background colors. Replace figures with a (customizable) white box. graphics/pstricks/pst-spinner TUGboat, Volume 38 (2017), No. 2 285 easyformat in macros/latex/contrib Markup italic, bold, bold italic with underscores macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib in source. azerbaijani in m/l/c/babel-contrib gotoh in macros/latex/contrib Babel style for Azerbaijani. Implementation of the Gotoh sequence alignment algorithm (see article in this issue). invoice2 in macros/latex/contrib macros/latex/contrib/-contrib/themes Intelligent invoices with LATEX3. beamerthemetamu in m/l/c/beamer-contrib/themes knowledge in macros/latex/contrib Beamer theme for Texas A&M University. Display, link, index concepts throughout a document. latex-mr in macros/latex/contrib macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib Guide to LATEX and Polyglossia for Marathi and other Indian languages. biblatex-enc in m/l/c/biblatex-contrib Style for Ecole´ nationale des chartes (Paris). lni in macros/latex/contrib Official class for Lecture Notes in Informatics. biblatex-oxref in m/l/c/biblatex-contrib Styles inspired by the Oxford Guide to Style. lucida-otf in macros/latex/contrib in Support for the OpenType Lucida Bright fonts, biblatex-shortfields m/l/c/biblatex-contrib Use fields shortseries and shortjournal if defined; including math (tug.org/lucida). compatible with . marginfit in macros/latex/contrib biblatex-claves Fix margin notes on the wrong side or off the bottom of the page. macros/luatex mathpunctspace in macros/latex/contrib combofont in macros/luatex/latex Control space after comma and semicolon in Experimental package to add NFSS declarations math. to combined fonts. mcexam in macros/latex/contrib luamesh in macros/luatex/latex Create randomized multiple choice exams. Compute and draw 2D Delaunay triangulations. minidocument in macros/latex/contrib luapackageloader in macros/luatex/generic Subdocuments inside a LATEX document. Load packages from the standard Lua package. modular in macros/latex/contrib path and package.cpath. Relative sectioning commands. numnameru in macros/latex/contrib Spelled-out numbers in Russian. pdfreview in macros/latex/contrib Annotate PDF files with marginal notes. poetry in macros/latex/contrib Facilities for typesetting poetry and poetical structure. rutitlepage in macros/latex/contrib Title pages for Radboud University. scratch in macros/latex/contrib Draw programs like Scratch (scratch.mit.edu). scratchx in macros/latex/contrib Include Scratch programs in documents. sesstime in macros/latex/contrib Add timing marks to lecture notes, and other time management tools. thaienum in macros/latex/contrib Thai numerals or characters as enumerate labels. typoaid in macros/latex/contrib Measure alphabet lengths, em and ex values. uhhassignment in macros/latex/contrib Typeset homework assignments. xsim in macros/latex/contrib Improved exercise sheets, succeeding exsheets. zebra-goodies in macros/latex/contrib Handy macros for paper writing. Cartoon by John Atkinson (http://wronghands1.com).

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