joseph wright wrote:

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

Name of contributions: l3kernel, l3packages, l3experimental Author's name: LaTeX3 Project Author's email: latex-team@latex-project.org Package version: SVN2678 Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/ Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

Snapshot of SVN 2678

• The CTAN distribution now includes the 'interface3' PDF: this contains the 'documentation' part of source3, but not the detail of the implementation.

• Some repetition in source3/interfaces3 has been removed to shorten the documentation.

• A number of documentation errors, etc., have been fixed.

• Documents 'l3styleguide' and 'l3syntax-changes' are added to the CTAN release.

• Base 'coffins' concept is moved from l3packages to l3kernel. This means that the programmatic concept of a coffin is now 'stable'. Coffin resizing and the higher-level interface remains in l3experimental, as it is still more flexible.

• The function family prop_get:NnN(TF) is moved from 'experimental' status to full inclusion in l3kernel. This function family has better performance and clarity than other alternative constructs.

• A number of experimental properties have been added to l3keys. '.choices:nn' is an alternative approach to '.generate_choices:' for creating choice keys. '.mulichoice:nn' is similar, but for choices where multiple values can be active at the same time.

'.bool_set_inverse:N' sets boolean variables to the logical inverse of the input. The possibility to set only keys defined for a module is also added as the experimental 'keys_set_known:nnN' function.

• An internal bug in l3keys, which would cause some variables to be set to

elax, has been removed.

• The l3keyval and l3keys modules are merged into a single source file. No functionality changes result from this.

• Work on xgalley is under way, with some changes to the code level carried out. Further work on this module is expected in the near future, and will be included in the next CTAN snapshot.

thanks for the 3 uploads; i have installed all the files and updated the cataloge repository.

Users may view the package 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 package 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 (at the latest).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team