CTAN update: figchild
Date: November 10, 2026 11:01:17 AM CET
Fernando de Souza Bastos submitted an update to the
figchild
package.
Version: 3.1.3 2026-11-08
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Pictures for creating children’s activities
Announcement text:
All figure commands now accept TikZ options directly, and the options are applied once to the figure they belong to. Scaling and rotation work as expected again, the package no longer changes global TikZ defaults, and the figure macros no longer introduce unintended surrounding spaces. Several figures were revised and corrected, and the documentation was extended with examples of the advanced usage. All previously available commands and options keep working unchanged.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/figchild The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/figchild/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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All figure commands now accept TikZ options directly, and the options are applied once to the figure they belong to. Scaling and rotation work as expected again, the package no longer changes global TikZ defaults, and the figure macros no longer introduce unintended surrounding spaces. Several figures were revised and corrected, and the documentation was extended with examples of the advanced usage. All previously available commands and options keep working unchanged.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/figchild The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/figchild/
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
Figchild – Pictures for creating children’s activities
This package was created with the aim of facilitating the work of Elementary School teachers who need to create colorful and attractive activities for their students. It is a product of the Computational Mathematics discipline offered at the Federal University of Viçosa – Campus UFV – Florestal by professor Fernando de Souza Bastos. At the time, professor Fernando was a faculty member at the UFV Florestal campus. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the UFV main campus in Viçosa.
The package makes use of the TikZ and xcolor packages.
| Package | Figchild |
| Version | 3.1.3 2026-11-08 |
| Copyright | 2021–2026 Fernando de Souza Bastos |
| Maintainer | Fernando de Souza Bastos |