i don't remember what i was doing, but it was obviously terribly interesting work, because i didn't notice the daemon saying:

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

Name of contribution: linegoal (v2.9) Author's name: Florent CHERVET Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/linegoal Summary description: A ``dimen'' that corresponds to the remainder of the line License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

. Modification of the expansion process for setting the linegoal in order to allow the use of linegoal inside the arguments of tabular column : p{ .4linegoal} m{ .2linegoal } b{ .15linegoal }

when the calc.sty package is loaded.

This is because such arguments are expanded by array.sty during the rewriting process and hence, before setlength.

This can be handy for multicolumn in some cases:

egin{tabu}{|XX[2]X|} Hello & multicolumn2{p{linegoal}|} {vskip-htstrutboxstrutlipsum[5]} \ abuphantomline end{tabu}

thanks for the upload; i have installed the new files and updated the catalogue repository entry.

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

The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team