Norman Gray writes:

Name of contribution: textpos 1.7 Author's name: Norman Gray Author's email: norman@astro.gla.ac.uk Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/textpos/ (replacing current version) Summary description: Place text at arbitrary positions on the LaTeX page License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

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.

Version 1.7 adds control over the colour of the rules round text blocks, and makes it possible to switch these rules on and off within the file

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i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue. see the catalogue entry

http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/textpos.html

for access to the package documentation, and to download.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team