LaTeX package synthslant slants short pieces of text to the right or to the left.
The minimally necessary files to install synthslant are synthslant.ins and synthslant.dtx. Running LaTeX on synthslant.ins in particular produces synthslant.sty:
latex synthslant.ins
After extraction from synthslant.dtx place synthslant.sty in a directory mentioned in your TEXINPUTS paths or copy it into one of the directories for your LaTeX installation's sty-files and run mktexlsr or equivalent.
To build the documentation it is easier to use the GNU Makefile:
make
LuaLaTeX users will want to override the default LaTeX command pdflatex with lualatex by saying
make LATEX=lualatex
To construct the manual synthslant.pdf a working MetaPost installation is required. Moreover, besides the usual POSIX utilities base64 is needed to recover the graphics file stored as printable ASCII characters inside of synthslant.dtx. Cautious users can run
make tool-check
ahead to verify that the required utilities are installed and working. For an overview over the most important Makefile targets use
make help
Load the package with the usual incantation
\usepackage{synthslant}
See Section 2 of the package documentation for available options.
The package documentation can be found online.
Synthslant is written by Ch. L. Spiel [email protected].
Released under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c or later.