CTAN update: l3kernel

Date: August 17, 2011 9:51:35 PM CEST

the daemon tells me > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: l3kernel > Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project > Author's email: latex-team at latex-project.org > Package version: SVN 2607 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/ > Summary description: Experimental LaTeX3 concepts > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Snapshot of SVN 2607 > > This release adds experimental functionality to xparse, and > also support for this in other areas. It also includes > a small number of other changes: > - xparse now supports (experimental) verbatim argument > grabbing. As discussed in the documentation, this > allows xparse to generate \verb-like functions. > - Support function \peek_N_type:TF added for testing if > a token can be grabbed as an N-type argument. > - \tl_trim_spaces:n is improved in handling of spaces. > - \int_to_base: performance is improved. > - Deprecated functions should now not be used anywhere in > team code (in preparation for removal of deprecated > functions in a later snapshot). thanks for the upload; i have installed the updated version and tweaked the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/ similarly, i have installed new versions of the l3packages and l3experimental bundles: ========== Name of contribution: l3packages Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/ Of which users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/ ========== Name of contribution: l3experimental Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/ Of which users may view the package catalogue entry at 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/l3experimental/ ========== The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

l3experimental – Experimental LaTeX3 concepts

The l3experimental packages are a collection of experimental implementations for aspects of the LaTeX3 kernel, dealing with higher-level ideas such as the Designer Interface. Some of them work as stand alone packages, providing new functionality, and can be used on top of LaTeX2ε with no changes to the existing kernel.

The present release includes:

l3benchmark for measuring the time taken by TeX to run certain code;
l3draw, a code-level interface for constructing drawings;
l3graphics, an interfaces for the inclusion of graphics files;
l3opacity, support for opacity in PDF output;
l3str, support for string manipulation;
xcoffins, which allows the alignment of boxes using a series of ‘handle’ positions, supplementing the simple TeX reference point;
xgalley, which controls boxes receiving text for typesetting.

Package	l3experimental
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CTAN update: l3kernel

l3experimental – Experimental LaTeX3 concepts

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