The package is a toolbox of programming facilities geared primarily towards
LaTeX class and package authors. It provides LaTeX frontends to some of the new
primitives provided by e-TeX as well as some generic tools which are not
strictly related to e-TeX but match the profile of this package. Note that the
initial versions of this package were released under the name elatex. The
package provides functions that seem to offer alternative ways of implementing
some LaTeX kernel commands; nevertheless, the package will not modify any part
of the LaTeX kernel.
