• CTAN update: tcolorbox

    From CTAN Announcements@petra@ctan.org to CTAN Announcements on Wed Sep 10 16:46:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

    Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the

    tcolorbox

    package.

    Version: 6.8.0 2025-09-09
    License: lppl1.3

    Summary description: Coloured boxes, for LaTeX examples and theorems, etc.

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

    ### Added
    - Initialization Option:
    - `number within from` with two new accompanying macros
    `\tcbcounterof` and `\thetcbcounterof` (issue #324)
    - Core package:
    - Options `tabularray` and `tabularray*` to use tblr tables
    inside tcolorbox conveniently (pull request #334)

    ### Fixed
    - Libary `skins`:
    - `attach boxed title to ... text ...` ignores `xshift` setting (issue #331)
    - `spread inwards` and `spread outwards` lost `toggle enlargement` for
    twosided documents since version 4.21 (2019-09-19) (issude #335)
    - Documentation:
    - Doc polishment and correction (pull request #325)
    - Description of `extras` made clearer (part of issue #326)
    - Mention `transform shape` for the `tikz` option (issue #327)
    - Missing counter names in references resulting from
    replacing cleveref since 6.6.0 (issue #328)
    - Mention extras options are stackable in manual (issue #329)
    - Redundant verbs removed (pull request #330)
    - Typo in documentation for `\DeclareTotalTCBox` (pull request #332)
    - Typo corrections (pull request #333)

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    https://ctan.org/pkg/tcolorbox

    The packagerCOs files themselves can be inspected at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tcolorbox/

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    For the CTAN Team
    Petra R|+be-Pugliese

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  • From CTAN Announcements@vincent@ctan.org to CTAN Announcements on Sat Nov 29 11:12:32 2025
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    Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the
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    tcolorbox
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    package.
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    Version: 6.9.0 2025-11-28
    License: lppl1.3
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    Summary description: Coloured boxes, for LaTeX examples and theorems, =
    etc.
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    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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    ### Added
    - Libary `documentation`:
    - Macros `\docKeyChoices` and `\docKeyChoices*` for lists of =
    choices with
    options `doc head left width`, `doc head left ratio`, `doc key =
    choices separator`
    (issue #351 and issue #352)
    - Shortcut options `doc key choices` and `doc key choices*` =20
    - Documentation:
    - New section 'Tagging'
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    ### Changed
    - Tagging improvement for basic tcolorboxes (breakable and =
    unbreakable)
    thanks to Ulrike Fischer (issue #358)
    - Documentation:=20
    Use minted2 for production since minted v3 is currently broken =
    with Python 3.14
    (https://github.com/gpoore/minted/issues/463)
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    ### Fixed
    - Documentation:
    - Doc polishment and correction (pull request #336 and pull =
    request #346)
    - Remove confusing sentence from `label type` docs (issue #338)
    - Emphasize `skins` library in `geometry nodes` docs (issue #337)
    - Mention new externalization packages `memoize` and =
    `robust-externalize` (issue #339)
    - Mention `beamertheme-tcolorbox` in connection with the `beamer` =
    skin (issue #340)
    - Replace several `xparse` leftovers (issue #341)
    - Remove `\interlineskip` from `tcolorbox-tutorial-poster.tex` =
    (issue #353)
    - Correct some header comments (pull request #343)
    - Add references to options line `run arara` (pull request #344)
    - Add general hooks intro for stackable options (issue #347)
    - Refine docs for `enhanced standard` and `enhanced standard =
    jigsaw` (issue #350)
    - Add note that `bookmark` and `bookmark*` are silently ignored, =
    if the bookmark=20
    package is not loaded (issue #355)
    - Add note that vertical spread options are not suitable for =
    breakable boxes (issue #357)
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    https://ctan.org/pkg/tcolorbox
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    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tcolorbox/
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    For the CTAN Team
    Vincent Goulet
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