CTAN package upgrade: filecontents
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint at alan.smcvt.edu
Wed Aug 18 18:05:39 CEST 2004
A package has been upgraded at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
favorite mirror.
Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: filecontents
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/filecontents
Summary description: Improved version of LaTeX2e's filecontents environment
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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LaTeX2e's filecontents and filecontents* environments
enable a LaTeX source file to generate external files
as it's run through latex. However, there are two
limitations of these environments: They refuse to
overwrite existing files; and, they can be used only
before the \documentclass declaration. The
filecontents package removes these limitations, making
it possible to overwrite existing files and to use
filecontents/filecontents* anywhere.
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You can have a look at the package at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/filecontents
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror
of CTAN that is near to you; see
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors
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