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Feb 6, 2012, 9:45:41 AM2/6/12
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the daemon tries to distract me with:

> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Package version: 0.86
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
> Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and
> flexibility in body text and index.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> These macros help an author to encode the (optional) forenames and
> (mandatory) surnames of people in order to normalize occurrences in
> the text and entries in the index. This package is intended for
> Western-style naming conventions.

thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.

> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/nameauth.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/

The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

CTAN Announcements

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Feb 10, 2012, 6:42:35 AM2/10/12
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the daemon calls:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Author's email: charles...@att.net
> Package version: 0.9
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
> Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and
> flexibility in body text and index.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a major update. Added features include automatic formatting of
> forenames, in addition to more flexible handling of ancient, royal,
> and Eastern names. A number of features are now fully macro-
> expandable, making index entries created by nameauth compatible with
> manual entries. More style options are included and the package is
> virtually feature-complete.
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