New on CTAN: texdimens

[CTAN Announcements]

Jean-François Burnol submitted the

                  texdimens

package.

Version:  0.9beta 2021-06-30
License:  lppl1.3c

Summary description:  Conversion of TeX dimensions to decimals

Announcement text:
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 Utilities and documentation related to TeX dimensional units,
 usable both with Plain (\input texdimens) and with LaTeX
 (\usepackage{texdimens}).

 This is a beta release which provides the following macros:

 - \texdiminbp{<dim. expr.>}: produces a decimal D such that the
   TeX dimension Dbp either matches exactly the input, if this is
   possible, else is either the closest match from above or from
   below (but one does not know which one). For the bp unit this
   means Dbp differs by at most 1sp from input.

 - Eight similar macros \texdimin<uu> where <uu> is one of nd,
   dd, mm, pc, nc, cc, cm, or in.

 - \texdiminpt{<dim. expr.>} is like LaTeX's \strip at pt

 Please refer to README.md for detailed and important usage
 information, and to the code comments for the underlying
 mathematics.

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The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
   https://ctan.org/pkg/texdimens

The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
   https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/generic/texdimens/

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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