i was (righteously) doing housework, and the daemon came up with:

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

Name of contribution: xpackages Author's name: The LaTeX Project Author's email: latex-team@latex-project.org Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xpackages Summary description: High-level LaTeX3 concepts License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

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The xpackages bundle: high-Level LaTeX3 concepts

The xpackages are experimental, high-level parts of LaTeX3. They are designed to provide a link between the programming system (expl3) and the user. Each xpackage is focussed in a different area, for example creating document commands (xparse), producing flexible formatting functions (xtemplate), etc.

At present, the xpackages are designed to be loaded on top of LaTeX2e:

usepackage{xparse} usepackage{xtemplate}

In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code. This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed.

To use the xpackages, you will need to have the expl3 package available. This provides the LaTeX3 coding environment on which the xpackages are built.

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This release (SVN 2047)

This release keeps xpackages in synchronisation with changes to expl3.

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The LaTeX3 Project

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thanks for the upload. i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository.

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

the catalogue entry, on the web, will change, slightly, overnight tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team