Norman Gray writes:

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: textpos 1.6 Author's name: Norman Gray Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/textpos (replacing current version) Summary description: Lay out text and graphics at arbitrary positions on the LaTeX page. License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

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.

i've installed the package as requested, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team