• New on CTAN: chalk-annotate

    From CTAN Announcements via ctan-ann@erik@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Sun Apr 26 19:45:54 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

    Zitong Zhang submitted the

    chalk-annotate

    package.

    Version number: 1.1 2026-04-25
    License type: mit

    Summary description: Chalk-textured annotations for Beamer presentations

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    New package: chalk-annotate rCo hand-drawn chalk annotations for Beamer

    Pre-rendered PNG overlays with natural chalk texture for emphasizing text in Beamer presentations. Six annotation styles (ellipse, underline, box, arrow, strikethrough, circle) in five colors. More realistic than pure TikZ approaches.
    Works with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.

    Install: tlmgr install chalk-annotate
    Usage: \usepackage{chalk-annotate}


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    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/unicodetex/latex/chalk-annotate

    More information is at
    https://www.ctan.org/pkg/chalk-annotate

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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Erik Braun

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