CTAN has a new package: svn-prov

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: svn-prov Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/svn-prov Summary description: Subversion Variants of the File Header Macros \ProvidesPackage, \ProvidesClass and \ProvidesFiles. License type: lppl Announcement text:

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Package svn-prov ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This package introduces Subversion variants of the standard LaTeX macros \ProvidesPackage, \ProvidesClass and \ProvidesFile where the file name and date is extracted from Subversion Id keywords. The file name can also be given explicitly as an optional argument. Syntax summary: \ProvidesPackageSVN [file name]{$Id: ... $}[Package Information (version, description)] \ProvidesClassSVN [file name]{$Id: ... $}[Class Information (version, description)] \ProvidesFileSVN [file name]{$Id: ... $}[File Information (version, description)]

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This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/svn-prov . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/svn-prov (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .