the daemon wakes up to tell me of three new versions:
The following information was provided by the packages' contributor.
Name of contribution: l3kernel Name of contribution: l3packages Name of contribution: l3experimental Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project Author's email: latex-team@latex-project.org Package version: SVN 3209 Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/ Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
Snapshot of SVN 3208
- New xparse argument types r and R for required delimited arguments, for example co-ordinates in parenthesis
- Completely new expandable argument grabbers for xparse, using at most one csname per grabbed argument
- Better grabbing of xparse d/D type arguments so that braces are never lost
- Improved error output when document command arguments are not correctly terminated, giving errors containing the name of the command to grab rather than xparse
- More error checks in xparse on argument specifications
- Changes to
such that they can be used directly inside an x-type expansion, leaving they result of the function protected from further expansion
- l_head:n, l_tail:n
- l_reverse:n, l_reverse_items:n, l_reverse_tokens:n,
- l_expandable_(lower|upper)case:n
- l_item:Nn, l_item:nn
- clist_item:Nn, clist_item:nn
- seq_item:Nn
- prop_get:Nn
- Better documentation for l3tl-analysis
- New (dim|fp|muskip|skip)_zero_nwe:(N|c) functions
- Clearer status of variables purely for internal kernel use
- Overhaul of l3regex c concept for catcode-specific find/replace
- Documentation improvements (thanks to Marc van Dongen)
- Better checking for consistency of LaTeX3 files
- Better variable coverage for usepackage[check-declarations]{expl3}
thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the catalogue repository.
Users may view the package catalogue entries at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3experimental.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/
The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team