New packages on CTAN in July:

• boolexpr - evaluation of boolean expressions in a purely expandable way
• germkorr - changes kerning for german quotation marks, for instance brings some letters like T nearer to german quotes
• fig4latex - simplifies management of figures in large projects by creating makefiles
• mathgifg - LaTeX support for Microsoft Georgia and ITC Franklin Gothic in text and math
• ltxnew - provides the \new, \renew and \provide prefixes for checking definition of control sequences, designed to work with e-TeX
• changelayout - an extension of the changepage package that can be used to change the layout of individual pages and their texts
• keycommand - an eTeX/LaTeX package that provides a natural way to define commands with optional keys, it’s based on the \kvsetkeys package
• biblatex-authoryear-icomp-tt - provides an author-year style with compact multiple-reference-citations and ibidem mechanism
• etextools - useful tools for e-TeX/LaTeX Users and package writers
• properties - loads properties (key, value) from a properties file
• kmrhyph - hyphenation patterns for the kurmanji language, T1 encoded
• ctex - a collection of macro packages and document classes for Chinese LaTeX typesetting
• zhspacing - a CJK typesetting package for document formats using XeTeX
• xeCJK - a LaTeX2e package for typesetting CJK documents in XeTeX
• CJKpunct - adjusts the location and kerning of CJK punctuation marks
• ERDC - provides a class for typesetting technical information reports of the Engineer Research and Development Center, US Army Corps of Engineers
• ESTCPMM - typesetting reports for Munitions Management Reports, US Environmental Security Technology Certification Program

New documentation on CTAN this month:

• Presentations with LaTeX - example files for the book from the Dante-Edition series,
• lshort-persian - Persian (Farsi) translation of “The not so short introduction to LaTeX2e”
• ConTeXt Top Ten Commands - an introductory document on ConTeXt frequently used commands
• Chinese Asymptote Manual - Chinese translation of the official Asymptote manual
• Asymptote By Example - a Chinese Asymptote tutorial
• Chinese Asymptote FAQ - Chinese translation of the official Asymptote FAQ
• ConTeXt Notes - a ConTeXt tutorial in Chinese covering ConTeXt installation, fonts, layout design, cross-reference, project structure, presentation design and more
• ctex-faq - LaTeX FAQ by the Chinese TeX Society

Updates on CTAN this month:

achemso, pst-3dplot, thailatex, tikz-timing, dvisvgm, pdfcomment, eplain, biblatex, zhmetrics, pst-solides3d, latex-veryshortguide, csquotes, erdc, memoir, biblatex-apa, ly1enc.def, natbib, FiXme, cell, pstool, etextools, oberdiek bundle, animate, zhspacing, bmeps, asymptote, ctex, pdfcrop, jpgfdraw, dozenal, ConTeXt Commands Top Ten, chitex, calctab, xepersian, bidi, cleveref, glossaries, datatool, softmaker-freefont, TotCount, VnTeX, expl3, mlist and biblatex-chicago-notes-df. For package-specific information visit the package folder on CTAN.