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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/textpos.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/textpos.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..de18cefcf30 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/textpos.html @@ -0,0 +1,181 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" + "dtd/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> + +<html> +<head> +<title>Textpos</title> +<link href="http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/" rev="author"/> +<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" + href="http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/style.css"/> +</head> + +<body> +<h1>Textpos</h1> +<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> +</div> + +<p>This package facilitates placing boxes at absolute positions on the +LaTeX page. There are several reasons why this might be useful, but +the main one (or at least my motivating one) is to help produce a +large-format conference poster. Other applications include placing +material within, say, figures.</p> + +<p>This package provides a single environment, 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. See the <a +href="textpos.pdf" >manual (pdf)</a>.</p> + +<p>I have a collection of general advice about <a +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> + +<dl> + +<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 +<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> +environments within <code>textblock</code> environments, to avoid their +surprising and undesirable interaction with <code>textblock</code>.</li> +</ul> +</dd> + +<dt>1.5b, 2005 June 13</dt> +<dd>The 1.5 release broke the textblock environment's optional +argument, controlling the position of the reference point within the +block. Fixed.</dd> + +<dt>1.5a, 2005 March 26</dt> +<dd>Documentation fixes: added a section on the +interaction between absolute mode and LaTeX's <code>\newpage</code> +command.</dd> + +<dt>1.5, 2005 March 23</dt> +<dd>Implement <code>\TPMargin</code> 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 <code>showboxes</code> package option.</dd> + +<dt>1.4, 2003 September 7</dt> +<dd>Changes in the handling of vertical spacing; inconsistent in some +circumstances before. Slight (consequent) change to the algorithm +which ensures that material is output in absolute mode even when the +page is otherwise empty. See README for details. Version 1.3a will +remain available for some time in case these fixes break things.</dd> + +<dt>1.3a, 2003 June 24</dt> +<dd>Added the <code>\textblockcolour</code> command, to set +the background colour of text blocks (there was a release 1.3, but it +was broken, and withdrawn)</dd> + +<dt>1.2b, 2002 July 1</dt> +<dd>Works around a bug present in at least one package, +which leaves box255 holding an hbox at the wrong moment</dd> + +<dt>1.2a, 2002 April 28</dt> +<dd>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.</dd> + +<dt>1.2, 2002 April 21</dt> +<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> + +</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> + +<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> + +<li>Run LaTeX on the file <code>textpos.dtx</code> to obtain the +documentation.</li> +</ol> + +<p>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 +</div> + +</body> +</html> + + +<!-- Local Variables: --> +<!-- mode: xml --> +<!-- sgml-indent-step: 0 --> +<!-- sgml-indent-data: nil --> +<!-- End: --> |