CTAN update: PerlTeX

CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) ctan-ann at dante.de
Sat Mar 28 12:30:23 CET 2009


This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at 
your local mirror.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: PerlTeX
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/perltex
Summary description: Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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PerlTeX is a combination Perl script (perltex.pl) and LaTeX2e style
file (perltex.sty) that, together, give the user the ability to define
LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code.  Once defined, a Perl macro becomes
indistinguishable from any other LaTeX macro.  PerlTeX thereby combines
LaTeX's typesetting power with Perl's programmability.

Version 1.8 of PerlTeX adds support for creating documents that can
build either with or without PerlTeX.  Specifically, the new
"optional" package option tells PerlTeX not to issue an error message
if Perl is inaccessible, and the new \ifperl macro checks if Perl is
accessible, thereby letting the author define fallback
macros/environments if it's not.

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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/perltex
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/perltex
(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 .



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