From 782deb6d565d097328fff63a6e7bca1527c0532c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Berry Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:37:27 +0000 Subject: textpos update git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@1942 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751 --- Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/README | 166 +---------------------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 161 deletions(-) (limited to 'Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/README') 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 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 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 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 -- cgit v1.2.3