the daemon pronounced: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xint > Author's name: Jean-François Burnol
> Package version: 1.09i > Location on CTAN: macros/generic/xint/ > Summary description: Expandable operations on long numbers > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1.09i 2013/12/18 > > * \xintiiexpr is a variant of \xintexpr which is optimized to > deal only with (long) integers, / does a euclidean quotient. > > * \xintnumexpr has been renamed \xintiexpr, (former name kept > but destined to be removed) \xintiiexpr is actually closer to > \numexpr, but with integer division the euclidean one. > > * the \xintexpr parser automatically inserts \number in front of > count, dimen, and skip registers/variables, or \numexpr, etc.. > expressions, with a tacit multiplication implied if following a > number or parenthesized expression. > > * \xintAssign admits an optional argument to specify the > expansion type to be used [] (none), [o] (once), [oo] (twice), > [f] (full), ... , (the default is [e] which means to use \edef). > > * xinttools defines (if the names have not already been > assigned) \odef, \oodef, \fdef: \oodef which expands twice the > macro replacement text is a faster alternative to \edef (when > the expansion gives hundreds of digits). > > * some across the board slight efficiency improvement as a > result of modifications of various types to ``fork'' macros > and ``branching conditionals'' which are used internally. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team _______________________________________________ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann