Name of contribution: sauerj (several small packages) Name and email: Jonathan Sauer Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sauerj Summary description: Update for sauerj: optparams (new), parcolumns, processkv, zahl2string License type: lppl

Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- These are a few LaTeX2e-packages for a variety of tasks:

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

Current version: 0.9

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

Requires the processkv-package (below).

Current version: 1.0.1

- 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

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

Current version: 1.1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload. I installed the new and updated packages as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/sauerj.

Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team