New on CTAN: multiexpand
Date: January 10, 2013 10:09:52 AM CET
Bruno Le Floch submitted the
multiexpand
package to CTAN.
Summary description: Variations on the expandafter primitive
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
Macros meant to avoid using too many \expandafter. Should hopefully be compatible with plain, LaTeX and ConTeXt, but requires eTeX's \numexpr. This was written before I had understood LaTeX3's variant mechanism, and I advise people who fight with expansion to use LaTeX3 rather than multiexpand.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/multiexpand . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/multiexpand (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 .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
Macros meant to avoid using too many \expandafter. Should hopefully be compatible with plain, LaTeX and ConTeXt, but requires eTeX's \numexpr. This was written before I had understood LaTeX3's variant mechanism, and I advise people who fight with expansion to use LaTeX3 rather than multiexpand.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/multiexpand . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/multiexpand (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 .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
multiexpand – Variations on the primitive command \expandafter
The package provides two user commands; one that performs multiple expansions, and one that does multiple \expandafter operations, in a single macro call.
The author suggests that the same effect could be provided by use of the command variant mechanisms of LaTeX 3 (see, for example, the interface documentation of the experimental LaTeX 3 kernel).
| Package | multiexpand |
| Version | 1.5 2017-11-29 |
| Copyright | 2011–2017 Bruno Le Floch |
| Maintainer | Bruno Le Floch |