CTAN update: etextools
the daemon's beginning to feel there some meaning to his life... The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: etextools Author's name: Florent CHERVET Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ Summary description: e-TeX tools for LaTeX users and package writers. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: -- I added an example file (also integrated into the dtx) Therefore, I saw some bugs... and fixed them : - improvement of \thefontname - correction of \listdel (\csvlistdel etc.) I don't guaranty it is bug free but it's on good way for version v.3.14159, 2010/04/20 ;-!) thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and worked hard at the catalogue repository. Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/etextools.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ and (for once) there'll be really noticeable change to the catalogue entry overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
ctan update: etextools
my upload daemon crawls out, blinking in the early autumn light, and says ctan-upl...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: etextools Author's name: Florent CHERVET Location on CTAN: CTAN home/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ Summary description: a lot of purely expandable tools for e-TeX -LaTeX Users and package Writers License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: -- etextools provides many (purely expandable) tools for LaTeX - Extensive list management (csv lists, lists of single tokens/characters, etoolbox lists): . purely expandable loops (csvloop, forcsvloop etc.) . conversion (csvtolist etc.)) . addition/deletion (csvadd, listdel etc.) . purely expandable linear interpolation (interval, locinterplin) - Tests on strings (among them \ifstrnum to check if a string could be parsed by eTeX's \number) - Selective detokenization (\detokenizeChars) and character- test - Purely expandable macros with options (\...@testopt) or modifiers (\...@modifiers) - Vectorized form of \futurelet: \futuredef can read more than one single token The pdf documentation contains a lot of example in verbatim. v3.1 (2009/09/30) - pretty stable - Any suggestion welcome ! thanks for the upload. i've installed this latest version, and the catalogue is already up-to-date. Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/etextools.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/CTAN home/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
CTAN Update: etextools
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 Florent Chervet submitted an update to the etextools package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ Summary description: More Useful Tools for LaTeX Users and Packages Writers License type: lppl Announcement text: -- Many additions : - List of tokens : loops and management \gettokslistindex purely expandable for use with \ifcase - Vectorization of \futurelet (simple token sanner : \collectoks) - Support of pdfTeX and XeTeX -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=etextools (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
CTAN update: etextools
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: etextools Version number: 2e Author's name: Florent CHERVET Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ Summary description: e-TeX more useful tools for LaTeX package writers License type: lppl Announcement text: -- Many bug fixed... an example file added. his package provides mainly 4 categories of macros : - the \expandnext macro and other expansion control macros - the \...@testopt and \...@ifstar macros for fully expandable (FE) (starred-)macros with options - fully expandable command list parsers : \csvloop, \listloop and a general constructor - some macros lacking from the etoolbox package : \listdel, \listgdel, \listxdel, \getlistitem, \getlistindex -- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etextools . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/etextools (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
