the daemon's been working away again, and reports:

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: Interfaces Author's name: Florent CHERVET Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/interfaces Summary description: A few pgfkeys-macros to modify a large number of parameters in LaTeX documents License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

Interfaces provides a small number of macros to modify the settings ^^^^^^^^^^ of a large number of parameters provided by Most Frequently Used Packages (MFUP!) for typesetting beautiful documents with LaTeX.

The macros shares a standardized syntax of the form key=value. The key names are intuitive: font, top, bottom, left, right, bookmark, bold, italic, color, twocolumns, title, pagestyle, before, after, indent etc.

Interfaces DOES NOT provide any new feature, except

epeatcell,

owfont, and ookmarksetup (as long as the bookmark package does not

`steal' them to interfaces... what whould be considered as a favour!)

A few macros are modified. The complete list is included in interfaces.pdf, with explainations.

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Interfaces is organised in different modules which are loaded after the master package is loaded. Each module can be loaded separately.

Commands provided: (each in a distinct module) -------------

sectionformat: interface for package titlesec to modify the titles produced by the sectionning commands (and their bookmarks). replaces itleformat, itlespacing and itleclass and is compatible with them.

pagesetup: interface for package fancyhdr to modify the current page style or create new page styles. Replaces fancypagestyle fancyhf, fancyhfoffset,

enewcommandheadrulewidth etc.

ocsetup: interface for package tocloft to fine tune the aspect of the table of contents, list of figures / of tables. ocsetup also applies to shorttableofcontents provided by the shorttoc package. Facility to make multi-columns table(s) of contents is included, give a label for the table of contents/of figures/of tables... give them a bookmark. Replaces a lot of tocloft' control sequences.

epeatcell: to create `dynamic' tabulars, possibly

with formulas computation:

umexpr, pgfmathparse or FPeval

formulas can be plugged in the tabular or array, with the possibility to transpose.

owfont: to modify the font and/or the alignment of

each cell in a tabular/array row. Modification of the alignment has some limitations. Compatible with all package compatible with array.sty,colortbl,hhline, arydshln,delarray etc.

• some macros to make easier the use of e-TeX marks

registers (useful with sectionformat and pagesetup).

runctext and htruncadjust are provided in order to take advantage of the code provided by the package truncate.sty

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Interfaces is mainly based on scrlfile.sty ( provided in the Koma- Script bundle, but Koma-Script classes are not required), on pgfkeys and etoolbox.

Interfaces defines some pgfkeys handlers designed specially to make key-value interfaces for other packages. Using those handlers permit the design of an interface in a few minutes... (well, good knowledge of pgfkeys is required ;-)

. ookmarksetup is also enhanced with starred keys.

. Facility to load TikZ libraries and pgf modules is provided via usetikz.

. pgfkeys is enhanced with a new ``default'' value in case the value is blank.

. scrlfile's AfterFile and BeforeFile have starred forms.

thanks for the upload; i have installed the package, and made an entry in the catalogue repository giving a brief outline.

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Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/interfaces.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/interfaces

the catalogue entry will not appear on the web until some time tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team