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Found 38 items for the last six months.

2025

May 2025

2025-05-20

🔗New blog post: Points of Departure. Tags: blog, books, fiction.

2025-05-15

🔗Update: glossaries-extra version 1.7 released (bug fix). Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-05-14

🔗Update: glossaries version 4.7 released (bug fix). Tags: ctan, tex.
🔗Update: bib2gls version 4.5 released (bug fix). Tags: ctan, software, tex.

April 2025

2025-04-25

🔗Update: datatool version 3.4.1 released. (Bug fix in databib.sty.) Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-04-14

🔗Update: glossaries version 4.6 released (bug fix). Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-04-12

🔗Update: glossaries-extra version 1.6 released. Tags: ctan, tex.
🔗Update: glossaries version 4.59 released. Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-04-03

🔗Update: mfirstuc version 2.09 released. (Minor change.) Tags: ctan, tex.
🔗Update: datatool version 3.4 released. (Bug fixes.) Tags: ctan, tex.

March 2025

2025-03-25

🔗Update: datatool version 3.3 released. (Bug fix.) Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-03-19

🔗Update: glossaries version 4.58 released. (Bug fixes.) Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-03-18

🔗Update: glossaries-extra version 1.59 released. Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-03-14

🔗Update: datatool version 3.2 released. Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-03-13

🔗Update: glossaries version 4.57 released. Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-03-12

🔗Update: datatool-english version 1.1 released. Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-03-11

🔗Update: tracklang version 1.6.6 released. Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-03-10

🔗Update: datatool version 3.1 released. Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-03-05

🔗Update: datatool version 3.0.1 released (files missing from v3.0 included). Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-03-04

🔗Update: glossaries-extra version 1.57 released. Minor bug fix and corrections to manual. Tags: ctan, tex.
🔗Update: tracklang version 1.6.5 released. Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-03-03

🔗Update: datatool version 3.0 released. Major rewrite. Now comes with localisation support, which needs to be installed separately. (See datatool-regions and datatool-english). Tags: ctan, tex.
🔗Update: glossaries version 4.56 released (patch to fix integration with datatool v3.0). Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-03-02

🔗Ebook sale (2nd – 8th March 2025): cybercrime fiction short stories Unsocial Media and Smile for the Camera free; crime fiction short story The Briefcase free; short story noir crime fiction I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing free; crime fiction novel The Private Enemy US$1.99; illustrated children’s story The Foolish Hedgehog US$0.99. Tags: books, fiction, promotions.
🔗New localisation bundle datatool-english released. This provides English language support for datatool v3.0+. Note that this has been released in advance of the pending datatool v3.0 release. The ldf files will be ignored by pre-3.0 datatool versions. Tags: ctan, tex.
🔗New datatool-regions released. This provides language-independent region datatool-region.ldf files for datatool v3.0+. Note that this has been released in advance of the pending datatool v3.0 release. The ldf files will be ignored by pre-3.0 datatool versions. Tags: ctan, tex.

February 2025

2025-02-07

🔗Update: glossaries-extra version 1.56 released. Tags: ctan, tex.
🔗Update: bib2gls version 4.4 released. (Bug fixes.) Tags: ctan, software, tex.

January 2025

2025-01-26

🔗Update: tracklang version 1.6.4 released. Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-01-24

🔗Update: bib2gls version 4.2 released. (Minor bug fix.) Tags: ctan, software, tex.

2025-01-14

🔗Update: tracklang version 1.6.2 released. Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-01-05

🔗Update: glossaries-extra version 1.54 released. Tags: ctan, tex.

2025-01-04

🔗Update: bib2gls version 4.1 released. Tags: ctan, software, tex.

2024

December 2024

2024-12-15

🔗Update: bib2gls version 4.0a released (missing files added). Tags: ctan, software, tex.

2024-12-14

🔗New blog post: Tales for Our Times Cheque Presentation. Tags: blog, books, events, fiction.
🔗Update: bib2gls version 4.0 released. Tags: ctan, software, tex.

2024-12-13

🔗Ebook sale (12th December 2024 – 1st January 2025): cybercrime fiction short stories Unsocial Media and Smile for the Camera free; crime fiction short story The Briefcase free; short story noir crime fiction I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing free; crime fiction novel The Private Enemy US$1.99; illustrated children’s story The Foolish Hedgehog US$0.99. Tags: books, fiction, promotions.

November 2024

2024-11-27

🔗New mfirstuc FAQ. Tags: faq, site, tex.