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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-08-13 23:37:27 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-08-13 23:37:27 +0000 |
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textpos update
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/textpos.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/textpos.html index de18cefcf30..4a0761d1b96 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/textpos.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/textpos.html @@ -1,13 +1,11 @@ <?xml version="1.0"?> -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "dtd/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Textpos</title> -<link href="http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/" rev="author"/> +<link href="http://nxg.me.uk" rev="author"/> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" - href="http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/style.css"/> + href="style.css"/> </head> <body> @@ -15,8 +13,9 @@ <div class="abstract"> <p>Lay out text and graphics at arbitrary positions on the LaTeX page.</p> -<p>This page is <code>http://purl.org/nxg/dist/textpos</code></p> -<p>Version 1.6a, 2005 October 13.</p> +<p>The textpos home page is at <a href='http://purl.org/nxg/dist/textpos' +><code>http://purl.org/nxg/dist/textpos</code></a></p> +<p>Version 1.6b, 2006 August 10.</p> </div> <p>This package facilitates placing boxes at absolute positions on the @@ -35,26 +34,26 @@ href="textpos.pdf" >manual (pdf)</a>.</p> href="http://purl.org/nxg/note/posters" >creating conference posters with LaTeX</a>.</p> -<p>Rolf Niepraschk provided me with a wonderful <a -href="niepraschk-demo.tex" >demo</a> of using Textpos along with his -<code>eso-pic</code> package, and the <code>calc</code> package.</p> + +<h3>History</h3> <dl> +<dt>1.6b, 2006 August 10</dt> +<dd>Minor documentation fixes</dd> + <dt>1.6a, 2005 October 13</dt> <dd>The overriding of the figure and table environments now also works when there is no previous environment to override.</dd> <dt>1.6, 2005 August 30</dt> <dd> -<ul> -<li>Made <code>{calc}</code>-style dimensions to the +<p>Made <code>{calc}</code>-style dimensions to the <code>{textblock*}</code> argument work again (so <em>that's</em> what -regression tests are for...)</li> -<li>Override the <code>figure</code> and <code>table</code> +regression tests are for...)</p> +<p>Override the <code>figure</code> and <code>table</code> environments within <code>textblock</code> environments, to avoid their -surprising and undesirable interaction with <code>textblock</code>.</li> -</ul> +surprising and undesirable interaction with <code>textblock</code>.</p> </dd> <dt>1.5b, 2005 June 13</dt> @@ -104,38 +103,14 @@ expressions in the parameters to the unstarred <dd>Rolf Niepraschk <code>niepraschk@ptb.de</code> provided code to make textpos compatible with the <code>calc</code> package</dd> -<dt>See README for earlier versions</dt> +<dt>Version 1.1 was released in 1999</dt> </dl> -<!-- -<p>At version 1.2, the package became compatible with the calc -package. - -<p>However, version 1.2 had an error, which caused a confusing error -if you gave any fractional part in the arguments to the -<code>{textblock}</code> environment. This was fixed in version 1.2a, -which adds a <code>{textblock*}</code> environment (fully compatible -with <code>calc</code>), and does not attempt to support calc-style -expressions in the parameters to the unstarred -<code>{textblock}</code> environment. - -<p>Version 1.2b works around a bug present in at least one package, -which leaves box255 holding an hbox at the wrong moment. - -<p>Version 1.3 added the <code>\textblockcolour</code> command, to set -the background colour of text blocks. ---> - -<h3>Download and installation</h3> +<h3>Installation and further information</h3> <ol> -<li>Download the file <a href="textpos-1.6a.tar.gz" - >textpos-1.6a.tar.gz</a> -or <a href="textpos-1.6a.zip" - >textpos-1.6a.zip</a> and unpack it.</li> - <li>Run LaTeX on the file <code>textpos.ins</code> -- this will unpack the style file <code>textpos.sty</code> amongst other files. Place this somewhere where TeX can find it.</li> @@ -144,30 +119,18 @@ Place this somewhere where TeX can find it.</li> documentation.</li> </ol> -<p>On CTAN: +<p>The <code>textpos</code> home page is at <a href='http://purl.org/nxg/dist/textpos' +><code>http://purl.org/nxg/dist/textpos</code></a>, and there may be more +up-to-date versions available there.</p> + +<p><code>Textpos</code> is also available on CTAN: <a href='http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/textpos/' >/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/textpos/</a></p> -<p>To guard against the continual possibility of fixed versions breaking -old documents, here are some selected older versions:</p> -<table> -<tr><th>Version</th><th>Note</th></tr> -<tr> -<td><a href='textpos-1.3a.tar.gz' >1.3a</a></td> -<td>Immediately prior to change in skip handling</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td><a href='textpos-1.1e.tar.gz' >1.1e</a></td> -<td>Immediately prior to compatibility with <code>calc</code>, and -introduction of <code>{textblock*}</code></td> -</tr> -</table> <div class="signature"> -<a href="http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/" - >Norman Gray</a><br> -2005 October 13 +<a href="http://nxg.me.uk" >Norman Gray</a><br /> +2006 August 10 </div> </body> @@ -175,7 +138,5 @@ introduction of <code>{textblock*}</code></td> <!-- Local Variables: --> -<!-- mode: xml --> -<!-- sgml-indent-step: 0 --> -<!-- sgml-indent-data: nil --> +<!-- mode: nxml --> <!-- End: --> |