the daemon respectfully waits while i digest my lunch, and then tells me:
The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: ltxnew (v1.3) Author's name: Florent CHERVET Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew Summary description: Provides the
ew enew and provide
prefixes for checking definitions
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
chardef and mathchardef were missing :
ewchardef enewchardef providechardef
ewmathchardef enewmathchardef providemathchardef
now work properly, as well as
ewglobalmathchardef etc.
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/ltxnew.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team