CTAN updates: l3kernel, l3packages, l3experimental
CTAN Announcements
ctan-ann at dante.de
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:
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> Snapshot of SVN 2966
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>
> - 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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