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      <title>New package on CTAN: ifetex</title>
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      <pre>i was innocently eating my lunch, and the daemon said:

&gt; The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
&gt; 
&gt; Name of contribution: ifetex
&gt; Author's name: Martin Scharrer
&gt; Package version: v1.0
&gt; Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ifetex/
&gt; Summary description: Provides \ifetex switch.
&gt; License type: lppl
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
&gt; ----------------------------------------------------------------------
&gt; This small package provides the if-switch \ifetex which indicated whether
&gt; e-TeX is available or not.

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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:57:04 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>CTAN update: ifetex</title>
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      <pre>ctan-upload at cl.cam.ac.uk wrote:

the daemon wrote (as i cooked the evening meal):

&gt; Name of contribution: ifetex
&gt; Author's name: Martin Scharrer
&gt; Package version: v1.1
&gt; Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ifetex/
&gt; Summary description: Changed declaration of \ifetex
&gt; License type: lppl
&gt; 
&gt; Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
&gt; ----------------------------------------------------------------------
&gt; The declaration of \ifetex now doesn't use \newif any longer to avoid
&gt; the macros \etexfalse and \etextrue.
&gt; The definition is now local.

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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:21:15 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>another ctan update: ifetex</title>
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      <pre>the daemon is determined to operate when i'm out of the office.  i was
at lunch when it said:

&gt; The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
&gt; 
&gt; Name of contribution: ifetex
&gt; Author's name: Martin Scharrer
&gt; Package version: v1.2
&gt; Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ifetex/
&gt; Summary description: Update to v1.2: New macro \NeedsETeX
&gt; License type: lppl
&gt; 
&gt; Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
&gt; ----------------------------------------------------------------------
&gt; This update adds a LaTeX macro \NeedsETeX[&lt;version&gt;] which works like
&gt; \NeedsTeXFormat but tests if e-TeX is avaiable, in a version not older

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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:52:15 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>CTAN Update: ifetex</title>
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      <pre>Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the

                ifetex

package.

Version:  1.2a  2018-03-31
License:  lppl1.3

Summary description:  Provides \ifetex switch

Announcement text:<hr> Updated manual with more description and to include website, bug tracker etc.


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      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:40:03 +0200</pubDate>
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