CTAN update: l3kernel, l3packages, l3experimental
CTAN Announcements
ctan-ann at dante.de
Thu Sep 15 23:35:50 CEST 2011
the daemon stirs thrice, and tells me
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: l3kernel
> Name of contribution: l3packages
> Name of contribution: l3experimental
>
> Author's name: LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team at latex-project.org
> Package version: SVN 2828
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Snapshot of SVN 2828
> --------------------
>
> - Bug fix for coffin typesetting where coffin the result should overlap
> text to the left of teh insertion point.
> - Bug fix for xparse environments such that the correctly suppress
> following indents after 'display-like' environments.
> - Bug fix for \prop_map_... functions to correctly handle empty key names.
> - Protect \prg_stepwise... functions from an infinite loop on a zero step
> size.
> - Documentation improvements to include date of introduction of
> functions into l3kernel, and dates of modification (where appropriate).
> - Layout improvements in documentation to balance need for completeness with
> length of documentation.
> - Improvements to l3doc to enable clearer information on expandability of
> functions to be included.
> - Alter \mode_if_math so it is expandable under all circumstances,
> providing an updated definition of \scan_align_safe_stop: to work with
> this.
> - New \clist_(g)set:(N|c)n function set to complement \clist_put...
> functions and reflect need to set comma-list data with space-stripping
> (see previous CTAN snapshot). The relatved .clist_(g)set:(N|c)n property
> has also bee added to l3keys.
> - Templates now auto-generate variables required for their code.
> - Remove a number of deprecated functions, as notified on LaTeX-L in May 2011.
> These functions are still in the sources at this stage for consultation, but
> are no longer extracted by DocStrip into the packages.
> - A small number of additional functions have been marked for removal at
> the end of 2011, and so have been removed from the documentation
> (again as notified on LaTeX-L).
> - Internal improvements in the efficiency of a number of basic functions,
> for example \cs_generate_from_arg_count:, \prg_stepwise....
thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry 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 package directory 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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