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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xargs/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xargs/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..99322a9776b --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xargs/README @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ + + The xargs package + + Defining commands with many optional arguments made easy + + Manuel P\'egouri\'e-Gonnard <mpg@math.jussieu.fr> + + +Presentation +------------ + +Defining commands with an optional argument is easy in LaTeXe. There is, +however, two limitations: there can be at most one optional argument and it must +be the first one. The xargs package provide extended variants of \newcommand & +friends, for which these limitations no longer hold. + +You may know some tricks in order to define commands with many optional +arguments, or with last argument optional, etc. Theses tricks are subject to a +few problems (using arguments in arbitrary order can be difficult, sometimes +space is gobbled where it should not), which can be difficult to solve. Anyway, +you don't want to worry about such tricky things while writing a document. + +The xargs package provides you with an easy and (hopefully) robust way to define +such commands, using a nice key=value syntax. + +Contents +-------- + +xargs.sty: the package itself +xargs.pdf: the (english) documentation and documented code +xargs-fr.pdf: the french documentation + +xargs.dtx: source for both documentations and package +xargs.ins: the docstrip driver + +Version info +------------ + +2007-10-20 v1.0 first release + +License +------- + +This material is subject to the LaTeX Project Public License. See +http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html for the +details of that license. |