• CTAN update: robotkarol

    From CTAN Announcements@manfred@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Thu Sep 24 09:34:32 2026
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    Anselm Wagner submitted an update to the

    robotkarol

    package.

    Version: 3.9 2026-09-23
    License: lppl1.3c

    Summary description: Worlds and block programs of the German teaching environment Robot Karol

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    robotkarol draws worlds and Blockly-style block programs in the visual
    style of Robot Karol Online (https://karol.arrrg.de/) for worksheets,
    exams and slides.

    New in version 3.9: a karolwelt picture can show the start state and
    the goal state of a task at once, the way the online exercises do.

    The objects take the keys start and ziel -- with the aliases neu and
    weg, and the Robot Karol verbs hinlegen/aufheben and setzen/loeschen --
    as well as startanzahl and zielanzahl for stacks that grow or shrink.
    The environment gained zustand=start|ziel|beides to pick the view,
    aufraeumen for tasks whose goal is the empty world, and rahmen and
    hervorheben. The new karolweltpaar environment draws one world twice,
    as a before-and-after pair, and \karolzustandslegende explains the
    symbols. The print mode covers all of this by hatching and dashed
    outlines rather than by shades of grey.

    Documents that do not use the new keys produce byte-identical output. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/robotkarol

    More information is at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/robotkarol


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    Manfred Lotz


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