new ctan package: interfaces

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Mon Oct 25 13:58:52 CEST 2010


the daemon's been working away again, and reports:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: Interfaces
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/interfaces
> Summary description: A few pgfkeys-macros to modify a large number of
>                      parameters in LaTeX documents
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Interfaces  provides  a small number of macros  to modify 
> the settings
> ^^^^^^^^^^ of a large number of parameters provided by Most 
> Frequently
>   Used Packages (MFUP!) for typesetting beautiful documents 
> with LaTeX.
> 
> The macros shares a standardized syntax of the form key=value. The key
> names are intuitive: font, top, bottom, left, right, bookmark, bold,
> italic, color, twocolumns, title, pagestyle, before, after, indent
> etc.
> 
> Interfaces DOES NOT provide any new feature, except \repeatcell,
> \rowfont, and \bookmarksetup (as long as the bookmark package does not
> `steal' them to interfaces...  what whould be considered as a favour!)
> 
> A few macros are modified.  The complete list is included in
> interfaces.pdf, with explainations.
> 
>           *           *            *             *
> Interfaces is organised in different modules which are loaded after
> the master package is loaded. Each module can be loaded separately.
> 
> Commands provided: (each in a distinct module) -------------
> ----------
> 
> \sectionformat: interface  for package  titlesec  to modify 
> the titles
>            produced by the sectionning commands (and their 
> bookmarks).
>            replaces  \titleformat,  \titlespacing and 
> \titleclass  and
>            is compatible with them.
> 
> \pagesetup: interface for package fancyhdr  to modify the 
> current page
>             style or create new page styles.  Replaces 
> \fancypagestyle
>             \fancyhf, \fancyhfoffset, 
> \renewcommand\headrulewidth etc.
> 
> \tocsetup: interface  for package tocloft  to fine tune  the 
> aspect of
>    the table of contents, list of figures / of tables.  
> \tocsetup also
>     applies to  \shorttableofcontents provided by the 
> shorttoc package.
>     Facility to make  multi-columns  table(s) of contents  
> is included,
>     give a label for the table of contents/of figures/of 
> tables...
>     give them a bookmark. Replaces a lot of tocloft' control 
> sequences.
> 
> \repeatcell: to  create   `dynamic'  tabulars,  possibly 
> with  formulas
>     computation:  \numexpr,  \pgfmathparse or  \FPeval  
> formulas can be
>     plugged in the tabular or array, with the possibility to 
> transpose.
> 
> \rowfont: to modify  the font  and/or  the alignment  of 
> each cell in a
>   tabular/array row. Modification of the alignment has some 
> limitations.
>   Compatible with all package compatible with 
> array.sty,colortbl,hhline,
>   arydshln,delarray etc.
> 
> + some macros to make easier the use of e-TeX \marks 
> registers (useful
>                                    with \sectionformat and 
> \pagesetup).
> 
> \trunctext and \htruncadjust are provided in order to take 
> advantage of
>                           the code provided by the package 
> truncate.sty
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------
> 
> Interfaces  is mainly based on  scrlfile.sty  ( provided  in 
> the  Koma-
>    Script bundle, but Koma-Script classes are not required), 
> on pgfkeys
>    and etoolbox.
> 
> Interfaces  defines some  pgfkeys  handlers designed 
> specially  to make
> key-value  interfaces for other packages.  Using those  
> handlers permit
> the design  of an interface  in a few minutes... (well,  
> good knowledge
> of pgfkeys is required ;-)
> 
> . \bookmarksetup is also enhanced with starred keys.
> 
> . Facility to load TikZ libraries and pgf modules is 
> provided via \usetikz.
> 
> . \pgfkeys is enhanced with a new ``default'' value in case 
> the value is blank.
> 
> . scrlfile's \AfterFile and \BeforeFile have starred forms.

thanks for the upload; i have installed the package, and made an entry
in the catalogue repository giving a brief outline.

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

the catalogue entry will not appear on the web until some time tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team



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