ctan-upload@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote:

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

Name of contribution: xpackages Author's name: Morten Høgholm Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xpackages Summary description: xpackages update License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

This is a snapshot of the svn repository as of 2008/08/03.

Only stable modules are included, which currently is limited to the modules xbase and xtheorem.

Changes in xparse: Semantics for DeclareDocumentCommand has reverted to the original (overwrite). Two new commands NewDocumentCommand and RenewDocumentCommand have been introduced. Same applies for environments.

Xparse: A reimplementation of the interface to AMS-LaTeX's theorem definition commands, using the facilities of the template package of xbase.

the interested user may browse the (extensive) readme file for further details.

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

thanks for the upload -- everything is now installed and catalogued.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team