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+<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>
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