CTAN update: ducksay
Date: November 23, 2025 5:52:16 PM CET
Jonathan P. Spratte submitted an update to the
ducksay
package.
Version: 2.8 2025-11-22
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Draw ASCII art of animals saying a specified message
Announcement text:
This release fixes two bugs which were introduced by changes in the kernel in 2025-06-01 and 2025-11-01. - `tail-symbol` wasn’t using the correct category codes if the symbol was a letter since `ltcmd`’s `v`-type no longer sets all category codes to 12. - `\AddColoredAnimal` wasn’t working due to the same reason and the used regular expression being too restrictive.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/ducksay The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ducksay/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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This release fixes two bugs which were introduced by changes in the kernel in 2025-06-01 and 2025-11-01. - `tail-symbol` wasn’t using the correct category codes if the symbol was a letter since `ltcmd`’s `v`-type no longer sets all category codes to 12. - `\AddColoredAnimal` wasn’t working due to the same reason and the used regular expression being too restrictive.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/ducksay The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ducksay/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
ducksay – Draw ASCII art of animals saying a specified message
The package draws ASCII art of animals saying a specified message. The following macros are available:
- \ducksay
- \duckthink
- \DefaultAnimal
- \AddAnimal
- \DucksayOptions
Multi-line messages are now fully supported. The package comes with two versions, choosable with the version key.
| Package | ducksay |
| Version | 2.8 2025-11-22 |
| Copyright | 2017–2025 Jonathan P. Spratte |
| Maintainer | Jonathan P. Spratte |