the weather's almost like summer, and the daemon staggers in with a new package:

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

Name of contribution: texapi Author's name: Paul Isambert Location on CTAN: macros/generic Summary description: Macros to write format-independent packages. License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

Texapi provides utility macros to write format-independent (and -aware) packages. It is similar in spirit to Philipp Lehman's etoolbox, except it isn't tied to LaTeX.

Tools include: engine and format detection, expansion control, command definition and manipulation, various testing macros, string operations, and highly customizable while and for loops.

The package requires e-TeX.

thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and created an entry in the catalogue repository.

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

the catalogue entry won't appear until after the processing run some time tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team