CTAN Update: xargs
Date: March 24, 2008 9:40:55 PM CET
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard submitted an update to the
xargs
package.
The package provides extended versions of \newcommand and related LaTeX
commands, which allow easy and robust definition of macros with many optional
arguments, using a clear and simple xkeyval-style syntax.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xargs
Summary description: extented optional arguments handling
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
Two new features: 1. The usedefault key allows you, when using many consecutive optional arguments, to specify a value only for the last one if you want. 2. You can know make gobal (or even \protected) definitions easily with the addprefix key. Have fun!
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xargs . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=xargs (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
Two new features: 1. The usedefault key allows you, when using many consecutive optional arguments, to specify a value only for the last one if you want. 2. You can know make gobal (or even \protected) definitions easily with the addprefix key. Have fun!
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xargs . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=xargs (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
xargs – Define commands with many optional arguments
The package provides extended versions of \newcommand and related LaTeX commands, which allow easy and robust definition of macros with many optional arguments, using a clear and simple xkeyval-style syntax.
| Package | xargs |
| Version | 1.1 |
| Maintainer | Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard |