my upload daemon crawls out, blinking in the early autumn light, and
says
ctan-upload(a)cl.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: etextools
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: CTAN home/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etextools/
> Summary description: a lot of purely expandable tools for e-TeX -LaTeX Users and package Writers
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> etextools 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.)
> . purely expandable linear interpolation (interval,
> locinterplin)
> - Tests on strings (among them ifstrnum to check if a
> string could be parsed by eTeX's
umber)
> - Selective detokenization (detokenizeChars) and character-
> test
> - Purely expandable macros with options (FE@testopt) or
> modifiers (FE@modifiers)
> - Vectorized form of futurelet: futuredef can read more
> than one single token
>
> The pdf documentation contains a lot of example in verbatim.
>
> v3.1 (2009/09/30) - pretty stable - Any suggestion welcome !
thanks for the upload. i've installed this latest version, and the
catalogue is already up-to-date.
> 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/CTAN home/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etextools/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
