On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted the
collectbox
package.
Summary description: Collect macro arguments as boxes
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides macros to collect and process an macro argument (i.e.
something which looks like a macro argument) as horizontal box instead as a real
macro argument. These arguments will be stored like when using savebox,
sbox or the lrbox environment and allow verbatim or other special code. Instead
of explicit braces also implicit braces in the form of group and egroup
are supported. This allows to split the begin and end over different macros or to
place them in the begin and end code of an environment. The provided macros are
mainly intended to be used inside other macros or environments
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/collectbox
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/collectbox
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
the daemon accepts another package, grinning wickedly...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: musixtex version 1.15 (packaged 2011-07-18)
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Location on CTAN: /macros/musixtex
> Summary description: Sophisticated music typesetting
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> dvips/musixtex/psslurs.pro was by mistake omitted from the last distribution.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and tweaked the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/musixtex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/musixtex/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemnum
package.
Summary description: A method for numbering chemical compounds.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Lots of things are new:
- instead of two commands (cmpd and cmpdlist) only one (cmpd) for both tasks
- setup with a keyval system
- possibility to initiate both labels and sublabels
- choices greek and Greek for the cmpd-counter keys
- package option textgreek = <value> to control usage of the textgreek package
- former cmpd+ is now cmpd-
- new cmpd+ added which reads label from <jobname>.cmpd
- bugfixes
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/chemnum/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/chemnum
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
the daemon keeps trying to keep me on my toes. it's a vain hope:
> Name of contribution: M-Tx version 0.60d (July 18th, 2011)
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Location on CTAN: /support/mtx
> Summary description: A preprocessor for pmx.
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> A file check in mtx.lua that caused it to fail (only in Windows!) has
> been removed.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/mtx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/mtx/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: PMX version 2.6.03 (July 18th, 2011)
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Location on CTAN: /support/pmx
> Summary description: Preprocessor for MusiXTeX
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Added source files for various documentation documents.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository (a little).
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pmx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/pmx/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon, before running back to his hole (because it's cold)
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: frontespizio
> Author's name: Enrico Gregorio
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/frontespizio
> Summary description: Create a frontispiece for Italian theses
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The frontespizio package lets you typeset a frontispiece (suitable for
> Italian university style) independently of the page layout of the main
> document.
>
> This is version 1.4 of the package.
>
> Changes from version 1.3a (unreleased):
> o Added a new frontispiece shape for the suftesi class
>
> Changes from version 1.3:
> o Added an informative message in the frn file
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version (including the
.tds.zip file) and updated the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/frontespizio.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/frontespizio/
The catalogue entry will change (among other things, to include the
.tds.zip) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon pops up with:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: M-Tx 0.60d (July 15, 2011)
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Location on CTAN: /support/mtx
> Summary description: A pre-processor for PMX and MusiXTeX
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> A convenient script for processing mtx files to tex/dvi/ps/pdf has
> been added.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, but felt there
was nothing to add to the catalogue entry.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/mtx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/mtx/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon told me, yesterday:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: moreenum
> Author's name: Seamus Bradley
> Location on CTAN: latex/contrib
> Summary description: More enumeration options
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> moreenum
>
> This provides the following new enumerate styles.
>
> - greek for lowercase Greek letters
> - Greek for uppercase Greek letters
> - enumHex for uppercase hexadecimal enumeration
> - enumhex for lowercase hexadecimal enumeration
> - enumbinary for binary enumeration
> - enumoctal for octal enumeration
> -
aisenth for 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc with raised ths
> - levelnth for 1st, 2nd 3rd with level ths
> - Nthwords for First, Second, Third etc
> -
thwords for first, second, third etc
> - NTHWORDS for FIRST, SECOND, THIRD etc
> - Nwords for One, Two, Three etc
> -
words for one, two, three etc
> - NWORDS for ONE, TWO, THREE etc
>
> Each of these works with enumitem's starred variant feature.
> So egin{enumerate}[label=Hex*] will output a hex enumerated list.
> Enumitem provides a start=0 option for starting your enumerations at
> 0.
> A binzero environment is provided for binary starting at zero enumeration.
> Likewise enumoctzero, enumHexzero and enumhexzero for the hex enumerations.
>
> Currently requires amsmath, alphalph, enumitem, and fmtcount
> all of which should be part of any modern TeX distribution.
(whew)
i've installed this new version, and updated the catalogue repository;
thanks for the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/moreenum.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moreenum/
the updates all happened last night, so the information will all be
available as shown above, on the web.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 Michael Anderson submitted an update to the
uothesis
package.
Summary description: Class for the creation of dissertation and theses that meet the requirements of the University of Oregon Graduate School
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update corrects a couple of major bugs in the uothesis code. It is highly recommended for anyone attempting to submit to the Grad School this term.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/uothesis
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/uothesis
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 Javier Bezos submitted an update to the
enumitem
package.
Summary description: Control layout of lists
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Fixes a serious bug introduced in 3.2: itemize and description didn't work with *-values.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/enumitem
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/enumitem
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appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 Thomas Koenig and Alexander Michel submitted an update to
the
numericplots
package.
Summary description: package to plot numeric data using pstricks (including Matlab export)
License type: gpl
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Plotting numeric data is a task which often has to be done for scientific
papers. In LaTeX, however, it is only possible to include graphics created with
an external program. The pstricks-packages provide very many commands to
generate graphics in LaTeX. To generate simple graphics from numeric data,
however, it is difficult to use. This package provides a simpler interface for
the pstricks-package to plot numeric data. Additionally, it
contains some Matlab functions to export such numeric data
from Matlab for easy plotting of Matlab data in LaTeX.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/numericplots
(Note the new location!) More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/numericplots
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
the daemon arrived too late last night to deal with this one:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: ltxkeys
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Location on CTAN:
> Summary description: A robust key parser.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The ltxkeys package provides facilities for creating and managing keys
> in the sense of the keyval and xkeyval packages, but it is intended to
> be more robust and faster. Its robustness emanates from its ability to
> preserve braces in key values throughout parsing. The need to preserve
> braces in key values arises often in parsing keys. This is often the
> case in, eg, the xwatermark package. The package is faster than the
> xkeyval package because, among other features, it avoids
> character-wise parsing of key values (which is called selective
> sanitization by the xkeyval package).
>
> It also provides additional functionalities for defining and managing keys.
i have installed the new package, and made an entry in the catalogue
repository that describes it.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ltxkeys.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ltxkeys/
The catalogue entry will first appear on the web (some time) overnight
tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 Bruno Le Floch submitted the
morewrites
package.
Summary description: Always room for a new write
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Lifts the limitation on writing streams by adding hooks to immediate, openout, write, closeout.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/morewrites
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/morewrites
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
the daemon follows up with a rapid:
> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20110713-202659/
>
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: catoptions
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Location on CTAN:
> Summary description: Securing catcodes and passing options.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The 'catoptions' package changes package loading internals so that all
> subsequently loaded packages can rely on normal/standard catcodes of
> all ASCII characters. The package defines canonical control sequences
> to represent all the visible ASCII characters. It also provides robust
> options parsing mechanisms, in addition to many TeX programming tools.
thanks for this one, too. 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/catoptions.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/catoptions/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon appears while i'm actually working:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xits
> Author's name: Khaled Hosny
> Location on CTAN: fonts/xits
> Summary description: A Scientific Times-like font with support for mathematical typesetting.
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Initial right-to-left math support
> - Add basic Arabic letters, digits and some math symbols
> - Add support for overly accents
> - Make uni2980, uni20E9, uni2223, uni2225, uni2AF4 and uni2AFC extensible
> - Support math variants using variation selector (VS1)
> - Add alternate negated symbols with vertical stroke
> - Use the bar glyph from STIXVar.otf
> - Fix FontForge warnings
> - Fix swapped U+22D2 and U+22D3 glyphs
thanks for the upload (where _do_ you find the time?) -- 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/xits.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/xits/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon tells me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: pmx 2.6.03
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Location on CTAN: /support/pmx
> Summary description: Preprocessor for MusiXTeX.
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This version of pmx allows up to 24 voices, beams, and slurs. It must
> be used with musixtex >= 1.15 and etex.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository (in particular, noting the requirements above).
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pmx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/pmx/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
The daemon tells me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: moreenum
> Author's name: Seamus Bradley
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/moreenum
> Summary description: More enumeration options
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> moreenum
>
> This provides the following new enumerate styles.
>
> - greek for lowercase Greek letters
> - Greek for uppercase Greek letters
> - Hex for uppercase hexadecimal enumeration
> - lhex for lowercase hexadecimal enumeration
> - inenum for binary enumeration
> - enumnth for 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc
> -
thwords for First, Second, Third etc
>
> Each of these works with enumitem's starred variant feature. So
> egin{enumerate}[label=Hex*] will output a hex enumerated
> list. Enumitem provides a start=0 option for starting your
> enumerations at 0.
>
> Currently requires amsmath, alphalph, enumitem, binhex and nth, all of
> which should be part of any modern TeX distribution.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the package, and made an entry
for it in the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/moreenum.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moreenum/
The catalogue entry will first appear some time overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: Circuit_macros
> Author's name: Dwight Aplevich
> Location on CTAN: /graphics/Circuit_macros
> Summary description: Updated Circuit_macros package
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is version 7.0, an evolutionary upgrade containing refined macros
> and options.
thanks for the upload; i have 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/circuit-macros.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//graphics/circuit_macros
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 Mahmood Amintoosi submitted an update to the
persian-bib
package.
Summary description: Persian translations of some BibTeX styles
License type: lppl
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New version of persian-bib for XePersian.
The LTRitems' environment has been changed with 'LTRbibitems' in the new release
of XePersian, so the Persian styles have been modified to work with the current
version of XePersian.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/contrib/persian-bib/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/persian-bib
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 Javier Bezos submitted an update to the
enumitem
package.
Summary description: Control layout of lists
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A few aditional features:
- start and widest* are calc-savvy.
- value can be used with widest*
- Some internal restrictions in arabic and the like has been removed. (It is more flexible at the cost of having a more ``relaxed'' error checking.)
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/enumitem
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/enumitem
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-node.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please replace
> all files with the ones in the directory
>
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-node/
>
> pst-node is a PSTricks related package and provides
> macros for drawing varies nodes and node connections.
>
> This update has a new documentation and the following changes:
>
> ----- pst-node.sty
> 1.00 2011-06-05 - make ancient variant 97 available (hv)
> 2008-12-12 first version (hv)
>
> ----- pst-node.tex
> 1.17 2011-07-04 - added optional argument for pnode for relative
> node setting
> - fixed bug with missing star version for
put
thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-node.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-node/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon's still on my tail...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: siunitx
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx
> Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.3a:
> - Restore missing code added to v2.2l of siunitx, missing in
> v2.3
thanks for the upload; i have 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/siunitx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/siunitx
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon interrupts my listening to the opera relay:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: l3kernel
> Author's name: LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel
> Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> SVN2498:
> - New clist_trim_spaces:n function
> - Faster prg_case_... implementation
thanks for the upload; i have 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/l3kernel.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon popped up while i was in the swing of real work:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: interpreter
> Author's name: Paul Isambert
> Location on CTAN: macros/plain
> Summary description: Translates input files on the fly.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Interpreter is a package for the LuaTeX engine which preprocesses
> input files on the fly (it isn't an external program).
>
> Users define Lua regular expressions to search for patterns and modify
> input lines (or entire paragraphs) accordingly before TeX reads the
> material. The main goal is to type documents in a given language
> (e.g. some lightweight markup language) and turn them into proper
> Tex.
>
> The source of the documentation is typed in such a lightweight
> language and is thus easily readable in a text editor (the PDF file is
> also available, of course); the transformation to TeX syntax via
> Interpreter's functions is explained in the documentation itself.
>
> Interpreter works for plain TeX and LaTeX, but not ConTeXt.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the files, and written an entry
for the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/interpreter.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/interpreter/
The catalogue entry on the web will first appear overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team