CTAN update: etextools

Date: December 8, 2010 5:16:18 PM CET

the flow _seems_ to have stopped, but not before the daemon rattled my cage with: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: etextools > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tabu > Summary description: e-TeX (purely expandable) ``tools'' for LaTeX users and package writers. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > etextools 2010/12/07 v 3.1415926 > > etextools has no interest, apart its documentation which is > a good test for other packages !!! > > Documentation revisited. > Even more crap than the former one ! thanks for the upload -- i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/etextools.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabu The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

etextools – e-TeX tools for LaTeX users and package writers

The package provides many (purely expandable) tools for LaTeX:

Extensive list management (csv lists, lists of single tokens/characters, etoolbox lists);
purely expandable loops (csvloop, forcsvloop, etc.);
conversion (csvtolist, etc.));
addition/deletion (csvadd, listdel, etc.);
Expansion and group control: \expandnext, \ExpandAfterCmds, \AfterGroup…;
Tests on tokens, characters and control sequences (\iffirstchar, \ifiscs, \ifdefcount, \@ifchar…);
Tests on strings (\ifstrnum, \ifuppercase, \DeclareStringFilter…);
Purely expandable macros with options (\FE@testopt, \FE@ifstar) or modifiers (\FE@modifiers);
Some purely expandable numerics (\interval, \locinterplin).

The package is dependent on the etex and the etoolbox packages.

Package	etextools
Version	3.1415926
Copyright	2009 Florent Chervet
Maintainer	Florent Chervet

CTAN update: etextools

etextools – e-TeX tools for LaTeX users and package writers

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