CTAN Update: texapi & yax

Date: January 26, 2011 8:39:02 AM CET

On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 Paul Isambert submitted updates to the texapi and yax packages. Summary descriptions: texapi: Macros to write format-independent packages. yax: Yet Another Key System. License type: lppl Announcement text:

texapi: Bugfix in loops with passed arguments. yax: YaX now supports good old <key>=<value> comma-separated lists with \setparameterlist. Also added: - \copyparameter - \deleteparameter - \parameterloop (loops over a parameter's attributes and their values)

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Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

yax – Yet Another Key System

YaX is advertised as a key system, but it rather organizes attributes in parameters, which parameters can be executed, so that YaX is halfway between key management and macro definition (and actually hopes to provide a user’s interface).

Values assigned to attributes can be retrieved and tested in various ways, with full expandability ensured as much as possible.

Finally, YaX’s syntax is a quite peculiar (as few braces as possible), but may be customized.

YaX is based on texapi and thus requires e-TeX.

Package	yax
Version	1.03
Maintainer	Yuri Robbers Paul Isambert (inactive)

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