New on CTAN: metrix

[CTAN Announcements]

Tobias Weh submitted the

                metrix

package.

Version number: 1.0
License type: lppl

Summary description: A package to typeset metric/prosodic
                     symbols standalone or above syllables.

Announcement text:
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This is the initial version of metrix. A package to typeset the
metrics (prosodics) as a line of symbols or above the syllables
of a verse. It uses an ASCII like syntax for the symbols, e.g. u
for an elementum brevis, _ for an elementum longum or u_uu for
an elementum anceps. The symbols can be aligned above (or below)
the syllables if you give the verse in a hyphenated form. A
short example by Ovid in his Tristia 4,10,26:

   \metrics{_  _    _    _  _   | _    u  u  _   u   u _  }
          {et quod temp-ta-bam | scri-be-re ver-sus e-rat}

Furthermore metrix defines three new commands for accent like
symbols (\lng, \brv and \acct) and a macro to print the bow
connecting two vowels or syllables (\bow).

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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/metrix/

More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/metrix
(as this is a new package, 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 .

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  Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese