• CTAN update: TikZlings

    From Erik Braun@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 12 07:12:19 2024
    samcarter submitted an update to the

    TikZlings

    package.

    Version number: 2.0 2024-12-11
    License type: lppl1.3c

    Summary description: A collection of cute little animals and similar creatures

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------


    ### New

    - Sandra, the ape (kindly contributed by @NuzzleTOO)
    - Ambrogio, the meerkat (originally designed by @CarLaTeX)
    - new accessories: banana and stick with leaf (kindly contributed by @NuzzleTOO)
    - added DEPENDS.txt file
    - new `leftstep` and `rightstep` options for the anteater, bug, coati, mode and squirrel
    - new `ears`, `hands`, `belly`, `feet` and `tail` options to colour body parts of the elephant
    - new option `horn` to change the colour of the rhinos horn
    - new accessories: sombrero hat (thanks to @CarLaTeX for contributing it)

    ### Changed

    - **Breaking change:** changed the reference point for body colour in several
    TikZlings (bears, chicken, coatis, hippos, pandas, pigs, rhinos, sheep, sloths).
    Previously the body colour didn't exactly specify the colour of the body,
    instead the body might have been drawn in a lighter or darker shade of the
    colour. This trick was used because it is easier to add white to a colour than
    to make the colour brighter. However the downside was that the range of possible
    colours was servely limited. For example the hippo used a 50% lighter shade for
    the body. Even if one choose black as the darkest possible body colour, one
    would still only get a medium gray hippo. Now the user can choose exactly the
    colour they want.
    - The default colours where adjusted to ensure that the TikZlings still look the
    same in v2.0, but if users previously used the `body=...` option, the result
    might now look different.

    ### Fixed

    - fixed bug in bug code (typo in hook name)
    - problem with bumps on sheep for negative scaling factors


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    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikzlings

    More information is at
    https://www.ctan.org/pkg/tikzlings

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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Erik Braun

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to CTAN Announcements on Fri Dec 13 17:51:36 2024
    Samcarter submitted an update to the

    TikZlings

    package.

    Version: 2.1 2024-12-12
    License: lppl1.3c

    Summary description: A collection of cute little animals and similar creatures

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    ### Fixed

    - meerkat: fixed typos in names of mouth and nose default colours

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    The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/tikzlings

    The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikzlings/

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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 6 17:01:20 2025
    samcarter submitted an update to the

    TikZlings

    package.

    Version: 2.2 2025-01-05
    License: lppl1.3c

    Summary description: A collection of cute little animals and similar creatures

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    ### New

    - added `openmouth` option to ape, bat, bear, bee, bug, cat, hippo, koala, marmot, meerkat, moles, panda, pig, rhino, sloth, snowman and squirrel
    - added `\randomaccessories`, `\randomhead` and `\shufflethings` macros to allow adding random accessories

    ### Changed

    - replaced clipped paths in bee, coati, hippo and rhino

    ### Fixed

    - typo in hook names for bees

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    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikzlings

    More information is at
    https://www.ctan.org/pkg/tikzlings


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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Manfred Lotz


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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to CTAN Announcements on Tue Mar 25 09:12:40 2025
    Samcarter submitted an update to the

    TikZlings

    package.

    Version: 2.3 2025-03-23
    License: lppl1.3c

    Summary description: A collection of cute little animals and similar creatures

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    ### New

    - Cookie, the dog
    - New options `randomhead` and `randomaccessories`.
    Basically the same as `\randomhead` and `\randomaccessories`,
    but no longer require `\shufflethings`

    ### Changed

    - added synonyms for eye/eyes, pupil/pupils, leg/legs, arm/arms,
    ear/ears, foot/feet, wing/wings, hand/hands, antenna/antennas,
    whisker/whiskers, paw/paws, toe/toes, tooth/teeth, etc.
    - replaced self-baked hooks with latex hooks:
    `\NewHook{tikzlings/<name_of_the_tikzling>/background}`,
    `\NewHook{tikzlings/<name_of_the_tikzling>/belly}`,
    `\NewHook{tikzlings/<name_of_the_tikzling>/body}`,
    `\NewHook{tikzlings/<name_of_the_tikzling>/foreground}`,
    `\NewHook{tikzlings/background}`,
    `\NewHook{tikzlings/body}`,
    `\NewHook{tikzlings/clothing}`,
    `\NewHook{tikzlings/hair}`,
    `\NewHook{tikzlings/hat}` and
    `\NewHook{tikzlings/foreground}`

    ### Fixed

    - bounding box of coati

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    The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/tikzlings

    The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikzlings/

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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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