that ol' daemon's not affected by sleep deprivation after an election night, like some of us... and so he writes:

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

Name of contribution: linegoal Author's name: Florent CHERVET Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/linegoal Summary description: A new ``dimen'' corresponding to the remainder of the line License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

Nota : this packages requires pdfTeX.

The linegoal package provides a macro linegoal to be used with setlength : setlength<some dimen>linegoal

will assign to <some dimen> the horizontal length of the remainder of the line.

This is achieved using the pdfsavepos primitive and the zref-savepos package.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Typical usage :

Some text: egin{tabularx}linegoal{|l|X|} hline one & two \ three & four \hline end{tabularx}

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thanks for that; i've installed the new version, and made an entry in the catalogue repository.

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 package itself is out on its travels around the world, but the web page won't appear until some time in the dark hours of the night.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team