New CTAN package: gates

the jolly old daemon doesn't suffer from colds, like me... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: gates > Author's name: Paul Isambert > Package version: 0.1 > Location on CTAN: macros/generic/ > Summary description: Implementing modular and customizable code. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Gates is designed to write code in a modular fashion: big macros or > functions are divided into small chunks (called gates) with names, > which can be externally controlled (e.g. they can be disabled, > subjected to conditionals, loops...) and/or augmented with new chunks. > > Thus complex code can be easily customized without having to rewrite > it, or even understand its implementation: the behavior of existing > gates can be modified, and new ones can be added, without endangering > the whole design. This allows code to be hacked in ways the original > authors might have never envisioned. > > Gates is implemented independantly for both TeX and Lua. The TeX > implementation requires the texapi package, whereas the Lua version > can be run with any Lua interpreter, not just LuaTeX. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, 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/gates.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/gates/ The catalogue entry will first appear on the web some time overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team