CTAN has a new package: spot

This should be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: spot Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Anders Hendrickson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/beamer-contrib/spot Summary description: Spotlight highlighting for Beamer License type: lppl Announcement text:

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This package allows dramatic highlighting of words and phrases by painting shapes around them. It is chiefly intended for use in Beamer presentations, but it can be used in other document classes as well.

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This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer-contrib/spot . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/spot (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .