CTAN package update: dashrule

[CTAN Announcements]

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
 
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: dashrule
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dashrule
Summary description: Draw dashed rules in LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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The dashrule package makes it easy to draw a huge variety of dashed
rules (i.e., lines) in LaTeX.  dashrule provides a command,
\hdashrule, which is a cross between LaTeX's \rule and PostScript's
setdash command.  \hdashrule draws horizontally dashed rules using the
same syntax as \rule, but with an additional, setdash-like parameter
that specifies the pattern of dash segments and the space between
those segments.  Because dashrule's rules are constructed internally
using \rule (as opposed to, e.g., PostScript \specials) they are fully
compatible with every LaTeX back-end processor.

This minor update enables \hdashrule to begin a paragraph.

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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dashrule
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dashrule
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .