CTAN package update: turnthepage

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Thu Mar 24 23:15:12 CET 2011


ctan-upload at cl.cam.ac.uk wrote:

> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20110324-204435/
> 
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> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: turnthepage
> Author's name: Merciadri Luca
> Author's email: Luca.Merciadri at student.ulg.ac.be
> Location on CTAN: [see before]
> Summary description: [see before]
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Update to v.1.3a.
> 
> The package could not be used on all LaTeX distributions, esp. when
> they are not e-TeX capable. 
> 
> Fortunately, Mr. Martin Münch had previously implemented the pagesLTS
> package, which does not rely on e-TeX. It allowed him to write three
> files: 
> * turnpageetex: old turnthepage's equivalent (using e-TeX),
> * turnpagewoetex: old turnthepage's equivalent using pagesLTS,
> * turnthepage: main file.
> The package now works for users who do not have e-TeX: when invoking
> turnthepage, the turnthepage package decides to use either
> turnpageetex or turnpagewoetex depending on e-TeX availability. It is
> also possible to use e.g. the turnpagewoetex package
> independently. Many thanks go to Mr. Martin Münch for this, who also
> added info messages depending on the package's status so that the user
> is now more aware about what's going on.

thanks for the upload; i have installed the new files and updated the
catalogue repository.

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

The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.  (if my
cron jobs run...)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team



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