Norman Gray spake, through the medium of http://www.tex.ac.uk/upload, thus:
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: Textpos Author's name: Norman Gray Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/textpos Summary description: Provides absolute positioning of text on the LaTeX page License type: gpl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
Version 1.5 implements a 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.
This is a long-overdue implementation of a feature-request.
i've installed the new version here at cambridge, as suggested. thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team