CTAN updates: l3kernel, l3packages, l3experimental

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Sat Nov 19 23:30:00 CET 2011


the daemon bothers my relaxed saturday afternoon...

> Name of contributions: l3kernel, l3packages, l3experimental
> Author's name: LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team at latex-project.org
> Package version: SVN 2966
> Locations on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/(l3kernel|l3packages|l3experimental)/
> Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
> 
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Snapshot of SVN 2966
> --------------------
> 
>  - Functions to measure coffins at the code level
>    (\coffin_ht, etc.) and at the design level
>    (\CoffinHeight, etc.)
>  - New family of \cs_if_exist_use:(N|c)(T|F|TF) 
>    functions
>  - New \dim_abs:n function
>  - Box viewport/trimming functions, plus driver-level
>    box clipping when using the "native-drivers" option
>    for expl3. The later work with dvips, direct PDF output
>    by pdfTeX/LuaTeX and with XeTeX.
>  - First part of a general move to use "_nopar" only for
>    a very limited number of functions - most will become
>    long over time
>  - Some fixes in l3galley for start-of-paragraph bugs
>  - Documentation for l3str and l3regex improved
>  - \str_from_to:Nnn renamed as \str_substr:Nnn
>  - A number of improvements in l3regex, including bug 
>    fixes, performance enhancements, support for caseless
>    matches and partial support for "{m,n}" repetition syntax
>  - \regex_extract:(N|n)nN renamed as
>    \regex_extract_once:(N|n)nN, with
>    \regex_extract_all:(N|n)nN added

thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the
catalogue repository entries.

> Users may view the packages' catalogue entries at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3experimental.html
> or they may browse the packages' directories at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/

The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team



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