Towards the end of 2022 the author of the three elegant* classes told us: “I created these templates in 2013 mainly for Chinese font settings along with some other settings.” As of now, the “ctex package is good enough for Chinese settings”, and the ctexart and ctexbook classes should be used as starting points for Chinese documents.

He feels that he no longer has the time to maintain these packages well, so prefers to retract them before they get outdated and buggy.

We have therefore agreed to move these packages to CTAN's /obsolete branch (see new URLs below).

This means that although the packages will shortly be dropped by TeX Live and MiKTeX, they can still be obtained from the URLs below.

For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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The packages’ Catalogue entries can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/elegantbook https://ctan.org/pkg/elegantnote https://ctan.org/pkg/elegantpaper (Please mind that some of the links on these pages may be broken until 24 hours after the move to the new location.)

New CTAN URLs of the packages (universally valid only in about 24 hours from now): https://mirrors.ctan.org/obsolete/macros/latex/contrib/elegantbook/ https://mirrors.ctan.org/obsolete/macros/latex/contrib/elegantnote/ https://mirrors.ctan.org/obsolete/macros/latex/contrib/elegantpaper/

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