ctan-ann - ltxnew

CTAN has a new package: ltxnew

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:48:20 +0200

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009,  Florent Chervet submitted the new package

  ltxnew

to CTAN.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew
Summary description: ltxnew provides the \new, \renew and \provide prefixes for checking definition of control sequences
License type: lppl

Announcement text:  ltxnew provides the  \new, \renew and  \provide prefixes for checking
 definitions. It is designed to work with e-TeX distributions of LaTeX
 and relies on the LaTeX macro \@ifdefinable.


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CTAN update: ltxnew

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:02:46 +0200

the daemon slowly rouses from his slumber, and writes:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: ltxnew
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew
> Summary description: provides the \new \renew and \provide prefixes
>                      for checking definitions
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 1.2 - 2010-04-17
> Correction of bug : 
>         \renew and \provide

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CTAN package update: ltxnew (v1.3)

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:13:33 +0100

the daemon respectfully waits while i digest my lunch, and then tells
me:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: ltxnew (v1.3)
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew
> Summary description: Provides the \new  \renew  and \provide
>                      "prefixes" for checking definitions 
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> \chardef and \mathchardef were missing :
>     \new\chardef     \renew\chardef     \provide\chardef

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