CTAN update: synthslant
Datum: 28. Oktober 2025 14:02:02 MEZ
Chris Spiel submitted an update to the
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> synthslant
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> package.
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> Version: 0.2 2025-10-26
> License: lppl1.3c
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> Summary description: Synthetically slant text
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> Announcement text:
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> * Features
> - Bug fix: Also slant discretionary hyphens.
> - Extension: Honor \discretionary primitives.
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> * Documentation
> - Add quick reference page for advanced users.
> - Add quick start page for new users.
> - Suggest a new method to determine a font's italic angle.
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> The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
> https://ctan.org/pkg/synthslant
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> The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
> https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/synthslant/
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> Thanks for the upload.
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> For the CTAN Team
> Vincent Goulet
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synthslant – Synthetically slant text
This package allows to slant (“shear”) short pieces of text to the left or to the right by an arbitrary angle, thus creating for example “fake italics” or upright italics.
Several back-ends that do the actual shearing are supported, though currently the pdfLaTeX back-end works best concerning output quality and processing speed.
| Paket | synthslant |
| Version | 0.2 2025-10-26 |
| Copyright | 2024 Ch. L. Spiel |
| Betreuer | Chris Spiel |