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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/README
index a7b0a50ec95..28dd61a7c91 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/README
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/README
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Textpos: absolute positioning of text on the LaTeX page
 -------------------------------------------------------
 
-Version 1.6a
+Version 1.6b
 
 This package facilitates placing boxes at absolute positions on the
 LaTeX page.  There are several reasons why this might be useful, but
@@ -12,166 +12,10 @@ large-format conference poster.
 This package provides a single environment, plus a starred variant,
 which contains the text (or graphics, or table, or whatever) which is
 to be placed on the page, and which specifies where it is to be
-placed.  The environment is accompanied by various configuration commands.
+placed.  The environment is accompanied by various configuration
+commands.
 
-Changes in 1.6a, 2005 October 13
---------------------------------
-
-The overriding of the figure and table environments now also works
-when there is no previous environment to override (blush).
-
-
-Changes in 1.6, 2005 August 30
-------------------------------
-
-* Made {calc}-style dimensions to the {textblock*}
-  argument work again.
-* Override the figure and table environments within textblock
-  environments, to avoid their surprising and undesirable interaction
-  with textblock.
-
-Changes in 1.5a, 2005 March 26
-------------------------------
-
-Documentation fixes: added a section on the interaction between
-absolute mode and LaTeX's \newpage command.
-  
-Changes in 1.5, 2005 March 23
------------------------------
-
-Implement \TPMargin command, which causes a margin
-to appear round the blocks of text within textblock
-environments.  This makes it easy to use blocks of colour which
-are larger than the block of text by a decent margin, or to put a
-border round textblocks by setting a suitably-sized margin and using
-the showboxes package option.
-
-Changes in v1.4, 7 September 2003
----------------------------------
-
-* I made some changes in the handling of vertical spacing before and
-after the {textblock} environment.  The environment claims not to affect
-the vertical spacing (that is, to be `invisible'), and this was not
-true in some circumstances.  There should be no difference in the
-spacing which results in absolute mode, though there might be some
-changes in relative mode _if_ the environment is surrounded by glue of
-one type or another.
-
-* Now {textblock} may be used in horizontal mode.  The behaviour
-hasn't changed at all in fact (insert a \par), except that the
-warning in this case has been removed, and the behaviour has been
-documented.  It is this which prompted the reexamination of the
-spacing around the environment, referred to above.
-
-* Slight change to the technique which ensures that material is output
-in absolute mode even when (as normal in that mode) there is no
-non-{textblock} material on the page.  I believe this is perfectly
-robust, but if you discover any error in this respect, it's probably
-this version it was introduced.
-
-Changes in v1.3a, 25 June 2003
-------------------------------
-
-Blush.  I was prompted to run the regression tests (so _that's_ what
-they're for), and this fixes the error they expose.  You may now use
-textpos _without_ loading the {color} package.
-
-Changes in v1.3, 25 June 2003
------------------------------
-
-Added \textblockcolour command, to set the background colour of textblocks.
-
-Changes in v1.2b, 1 July 2002
------------------------------
-
-Added code to cope with the case when box 255 isn't a vbox at shipout
-(that's wrong, and not our fault, but we shouldn't collapse when it
-happens!).  Thanks to Wybo Dekker and Hans Hagen for the report and
-the fix.
-
-
-Changes in v1.2a, 28 April 2002
--------------------------------
-
-The way that I implemented the {calc} compatibility was wrong in v1.2
-(Rolf's code was correct, but I `improved' it).  It meant that things
-went badly wrong if you tried to give fractional sizes in the
-dimensions arguments to the {textblock} environment (I choose the grid 
-so that I only ever use whole numbers for these, so I hadn't had any
-real numbers in my test cases).  There's now a {textblock*}
-environment, which has absolute dimensions (that is, not in terms of
-the module, though you can still use \TPHorizModule and \TPVertModule
-as dimensions), to which you can give calc-compatible dimensions if
-you wish.  You can't give expressions in the arguments to the
-unstarred {textblock} environment.
-
-Changes in  v1.2, 21 April 2002
--------------------------------
-
-Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@ptb.de> provided code to make textpos
-compatible with the {calc} package.
-
-Added the [verbose] and [quiet] package options.
-
-Changes in v1.1e, 19 April 2001
--------------------------------
-
-Corrected a spacing misfeature, which caused extra space when
-textblocks were interspersed with paragraphs.  Thanks to Peter
-Muenster <peter@univ-rennes1.fr> for spotting and reporting this.
-
-Changes in v1.1d, 6 June 1999
------------------------------
-
-Clarified the copyright and licence status, including a copy of the
-GPL in the distribution.  The immediate motivation was the CTAN
-campaign to do this for all the CTAN packages, but it should have been
-done before.
-
-Changes in v1.1c
-----------------
-
-Added an optional argument to \TPGrid, which controls a border round
-the grid.  Made the checksum correct!
-
-Added the `overlay' option.
-
-Corrected a spacing bug, which made textblocks in the non-`absolute'
-mode drift out of place.
-
-Changes in v1.1b
-----------------
-
-Added a note to the effect that the required everyshi package can also
-be found at CTAN
-
-Changes in v1.1a
-----------------
-
-Blush!  The example file distributed with the package exposed a bug!
-When there was no text on the page outside {textblock} blocks (the
-usual case, if you're producing a poster), the TeX engine didn't know
-there was anything on the page at all, and (sensibly) output nothing.
-I made the obvious fix (thanks to Bjoern Pedersen for diagnosing the
-problem, and to Wolfgang Erdmann <earthmen@mail1.cityweb.de> for
-reporting it so promptly).
-
-
-Changes in v1.1, and credits
-----------------------------
-
-The package now clearly distinguishes between a `relative' and an
-`absolute' mode of positioning text (the distinction was largely
-present before, but neither as clear nor as robust).  It also now
-distinguishes the horizontal and vertical units used for positioning.
-
-Olaf Maibaum (Olaf.Maibaum@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
-produced the elegant code which I've incorporated here as the
-`absolute mode'.
-
-Bjoern Pedersen (bjoern@poseidon.org.chemie.tu-muenchen.de)
-made the excellent suggestion (including code) that the horizontal and
-vertical modules should be independent.
+For the change history, see textpos.html.
 
 
 Installation
@@ -202,4 +46,4 @@ LICENCE for the licence conditions.
 
 
 Norman Gray, (norman@astro.gla.ac.uk)
-http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman
+http://nxg.me.uk