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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
<meta name='DC.subject' content='latex, textpos, absolute positioning'/>
<meta name='DC.title' content='Textpos'/>
<meta name='DC.date' content='2006-8-24'/> <!-- 1.7 release date -->
-<meta name='rcsdate' content='$Date: 2007/10/15 17:08:07 $'/>
+<meta name='rcsdate' content='$Date$'/>
<link rel="schema.DC" href="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" />
<link href="http://nxg.me.uk" rev="author"/>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"
@@ -20,14 +20,16 @@
page.</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 1.7d, 2007 March 30.</p>
+<p>Version 1.7f, 2009 May 28.</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>
+material within, say, figures. Textpos is also discussed in the <a
+href='http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=abspos'>TeX FAQ
+entry on absolute positioning</a>.</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
@@ -49,6 +51,19 @@ material on the page.</p>
<h3>History</h3>
<dl>
+<dt>1.7f, 2009 May 28</dt>
+<dd>The change in behaviour introduced in v1.7e is now documented (it
+was unspecified before, and 1.7e didn't commit itself one way or the
+other).</dd>
+
+<dt>1.7e, 2009 March 29</dt>
+<dd>Daniel Richard G noted that the order in which textblock contents
+was laid down on the page was counter-intuitive, since one would
+expect that later environments go 'on top of' earlier ones. This
+order was unspecified before this version, but I've changed this,
+satisfying a principle of least surprise (later ones now go 'on
+top').</dd>
+
<dt>1.7d, 2007 March 30</dt>
<dd>Axel Sommerfeldt suggested a further alternative approach, even more
lightweight, and I incorporated a version of that.</dd>
@@ -73,7 +88,7 @@ Fixed.</dd>
failing. Textpos will give you a warning in this case, reminding you
to load the <code>{color}</code> package.</dd>
-<dt>1.7, 2006 August 24</dt>
+<dt><strong>1.7, 2006 August 24</strong></dt>
<dd>Added the <code>\textblockrulecolour</code> and
<code>\TPshowboxes{true,false}</code> commands, to further control the
display of the rules around the text blocks.</dd>
@@ -85,15 +100,13 @@ display of the rules around the text blocks.</dd>
<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>
-<p>Made <code>{calc}</code>-style dimensions to the
+<dt><strong>1.6, 2005 August 30</strong></dt>
+<dd>Made <code>{calc}</code>-style dimensions to the
<code>{textblock*}</code> argument work again (so <em>that's</em> what
-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>.</p>
-</dd>
+regression tests are for...). 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>.</dd>
<dt>1.5b, 2005 June 13</dt>
<dd>The 1.5 release broke the textblock environment's optional
@@ -105,7 +118,7 @@ block. Fixed.</dd>
interaction between absolute mode and LaTeX's <code>\newpage</code>
command.</dd>
-<dt>1.5, 2005 March 23</dt>
+<dt><strong>1.5, 2005 March 23</strong></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
@@ -113,7 +126,7 @@ 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>
+<dt><strong>1.4, 2003 September 7</strong></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
@@ -122,8 +135,11 @@ 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>
+the background colour of text blocks</dd>
+
+<dt><strong>1.3, 2003 June 24</strong></dt>
+<dd>(there was a release 1.3, but it was broken, and immediately
+replaced by 1.3a)</dd>
<dt>1.2b, 2002 July 1</dt>
<dd>Works around a bug present in at least one package,
@@ -138,7 +154,7 @@ 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>
+<dt><strong>1.2, 2002 April 21</strong></dt>
<dd>Rolf Niepraschk <code>niepraschk@ptb.de</code> provided code to
make textpos compatible with the <code>calc</code> package</dd>
@@ -169,7 +185,7 @@ up-to-date versions available there.</p>
<div class="signature">
<a href="http://nxg.me.uk" >Norman Gray</a><br />
-2007 March 30
+2009 May 28
</div>
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