ctan-ann - linegoal

New CTAN package: linegoal

2010-05-07T16:11:39Z

that ol' daemon's not affected by sleep deprivation after an election
night, like some of us...  and so he writes:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: linegoal
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/linegoal
> Summary description: A new ``dimen'' corresponding to the remainder of
> 	  	       the line 
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Nota : this packages requires pdfTeX.
> 
> The linegoal package provides a macro \linegoal

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CTAN update: linegoal

2010-11-20T12:49:17Z

and then the daemon starts again:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: linegoal
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/linegoal
> Summary description: A new ``dimen'' corresponding to the remainder of the line
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fix a bug with the syntax <<  .5\linegoal   >>
> Hence better fitting with next version of tabu package (1.4 
> 2010/11/20) to be uploaded soon.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------


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CTAN update: linegoal

2010-11-28T18:57:55Z

the daemon said, at a time when i was on the road...

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: linegoal
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/linegoal
> Summary description: A new ``dimen'' corresponding to the remainder of the line
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> New package option : [verbose]
> To trace the line - goals in the .log file.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the

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CTAN package update: linegoal (v2.9)

2011-02-25T19:35:52Z

i don't remember what i was doing, but it was obviously terribly
interesting work, because i didn't notice the daemon saying:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: linegoal (v2.9)
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/linegoal
> Summary description: A ``dimen'' that corresponds to the remainder of the line
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> . Modification of the expansion process for setting the 
>   linegoal in order to allow the use of \linegoal inside
>   the arguments of tabular column :
>      p{ .4\linegoal} m{ .2\linegoal } b{ .15\linegoal }

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