CTAN update: synthslant
Date: October 28, 2025 2:02:02 PM CET
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.
| Package | synthslant |
| Version | 0.2 2025-10-26 |
| Copyright | 2024 Ch. L. Spiel |
| Maintainer | Chris Spiel |