Tobias Weh submitted the
metrix
package.
Version number: 1.0 License type: lppl
Summary description: A package to typeset metric/prosodic symbols standalone or above syllables.
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This is the initial version of metrix. A package to typeset the metrics (prosodics) as a line of symbols or above the syllables of a verse. It uses an ASCII like syntax for the symbols, e.g. u for an elementum brevis, _ for an elementum longum or u_uu for an elementum anceps. The symbols can be aligned above (or below) the syllables if you give the verse in a hyphenated form. A short example by Ovid in his Tristia 4,10,26:
metrics{_ _ _ _ _ | _ u u _ u u _ } {et quod temp-ta-bam | scri-be-re ver-sus e-rat}
Furthermore metrix defines three new commands for accent like symbols (lng, rv and acct) and a macro to print the bow connecting two vowels or syllables (ow).
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This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/metrix/
More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/metrix (as this is a new package, it may take a day for that information to appear).
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese