the daemon bothers my relaxed saturday afternoon...

Name of contributions: l3kernel, l3packages, l3experimental Author's name: LaTeX3 Project Author's email: latex-team@latex-project.org Package version: SVN 2966 Locations on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/(l3kernel|l3packages|l3experimental)/ Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

Snapshot of SVN 2966

• Functions to measure coffins at the code level (coffin_ht, etc.) and at the design level (CoffinHeight, etc.)
• New family of cs_if_exist_use:(N|c)(T|F|TF) functions
• New dim_abs:n function
• Box viewport/trimming functions, plus driver-level box clipping when using the native-drivers option for expl3. The later work with dvips, direct PDF output by pdfTeX/LuaTeX and with XeTeX.
• First part of a general move to use _nopar only for a very limited number of functions - most will become long over time
• Some fixes in l3galley for start-of-paragraph bugs
• Documentation for l3str and l3regex improved
• str_from_to:Nnn renamed as str_substr:Nnn
• A number of improvements in l3regex, including bug fixes, performance enhancements, support for caseless matches and partial support for {m,n} repetition syntax

egex_extract:(N|n)nN renamed as

egex_extract_once:(N|n)nN, with

egex_extract_all:(N|n)nN added

thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the catalogue repository entries.

Users may view the packages' catalogue entries at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3experimental.html or they may browse the packages' directories at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/

The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team