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Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: PerlTeX Version number: 1.9 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/perltex/ Summary description: Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code License type: lppl
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PerlTeX is a combination Perl script (perltex.pl) and LaTeX2e style file (perltex.sty) that, together, give the user the ability to define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code. Once defined, a Perl macro becomes indistinguishable from any other LaTeX macro. PerlTeX thereby combines LaTeX's typesetting power with Perl's programmability.
PerlTeX has been made more robust in version 1.9. Specifically, perltex.pl no longer inserts a spurious end-of-line character on a short pipe read and no longer hangs if latex exits at the exact moment that perltex.pl tries to contact it. Thanks to Chromatic Dragon for reporting these bugs and testing the fixes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/perltex/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/perltex (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 .