On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 Jonathan Sauer submitted an update to his sauerj bundle. It is installed in

macros/latex/contrib/sauerj

Thanks for the upload.

Summary description: Some packages for LaTeX: collect, metainfo, optparams, parcolumns, processkv, zahl2string License type: lppl

Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- An update for the sauerj LaTeX packages:

Changed:

- parcolumns provides an environment for typesetting text in two or more columns in parallel.

Requires the processkv-package (below).

Current version: 1.2 (fixes bug with list environments and works correctly with the amsart class)

- zahl2string provides macros for formatting numbers as german words, i.e. `1' gets formatted as `eins'.

Current version: 1.2.1 (@Numstring and @Ordstring made robust)

New:

- metainfo provides a macro for only typesetting specially formatted comments of a document.

Current version: 0.9.1

Unmodified:

- collect provides several environment to collect text in a macro or a file for later use.

Current version: 0.9

- optparams provides a small macro for creating macros with multiple optional parameters.

Current version: 0.9

- processkv provides macros for processing of key-value-lists by calling a user-defined macro for each key-value-pair.

Requires the keyval-package dated 1999/03/16 or later.

Current version: 1.0.1

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For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf