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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2020-05-05 03:00:58 +0000 |
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committer | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2020-05-05 03:00:58 +0000 |
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diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/curve2e/README.txt b/macros/latex/contrib/curve2e/README.txt index d805a99f29..c938d9e12e 100644 --- a/macros/latex/contrib/curve2e/README.txt +++ b/macros/latex/contrib/curve2e/README.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ %% License information appended %% File README.txt for package curve2e - [2020-04-02 v.2.2.6 Extension package for pict2e] + [2020-05-03 v.2.2.8 Extension package for pict2e] The package bundle curve2e is composed of the following files curve2e.dtx @@ -33,21 +33,23 @@ Move curve2e.sty and curve2e-v161.sty to ROOT/tex/latex/curve2e/ Move README.txt to ROOT/doc/latex/curve2e/ curve2e.dtx is the documented TeX source file of the derived files -curve2e.sty, curve2e-v161.sty and README.txt. +curve2e.sty, curve2e.pdf, curve2e-v161.sty and README.txt. You get curve2e.sty, curve2e.pdf, curve2e-v161.sty, and README.txt by running pdflatex on curve2e.dtx. The curve2e-manual files contains the user manual; in -this way the long preliminary descriptive part has been transferred to -a shorter dedicated file, and the “normal” user should have enough -information to use the package. Th curve2e.pdf file, extracted from -the .dtx one, contains the code documentation and is intended for the -developers, or for the curious advanced users. For what concerns -curve2e-v161.sty is a previous version of this package; see below why -the older version might become necessary to the end user. +this way the long preliminary descriptive part of the previous versions +curve2e.pdf file has been transferred to shorter dedicated file, and the +“normal” user should have enough information to use the package. The +curve2e.pdf file, extracted from the .dtx one, contains the code +documentation and is intended for the developers, or for the curious +advanced users. For what concerns curve2e-v161.sty is a previous +version of this package; see below why the older version might become +necessary to the end user. README.txt, this file, contains general information. + This bundle contains also package curve2e-v161.sty, a roll-back version needed in certain rare cases. @@ -56,15 +58,15 @@ standard picture LaTeX environment according to what Leslie Lamport specified in the second edition of his LaTeX manual (1994). This further extension curve2e.sty to pict2e.sty allows to draw lines -and vectorsith any non integer slope parameters, to draw dashed and dotted -lines of any slope, to draw arcs and curved vectors, to draw curves where -just the interpolating nodes are specified together with the slopes at -such nodes; closed paths of any shape can be filled with color; all -coordinates are treated as ordered pairs, i.e. 'complex numbers'; -coordinates may be expressed also in polar form. Coordinates may be -specified with macros, so that editing any drawing is rendered much -simpler: any point specified with a macro is modified only once in -its macro definition. +and vectors with any non integer slope parameters, to draw dashed and +dotted lines of any slope, to draw arcs and curved vectors, to draw +curves where just the interpolating nodes are specified together with +the slopes at such nodes; closed paths of any shape can be filled with +color; all coordinates are treated as ordered pairs, i.e. 'complex +numbers'; coordinates may be expressed also in polar form. Coordinates +may be specified with macros, so that editing any drawing is rendered +much simpler: any point specified with a macro is modified only once +in its macro definition. Some of these features have been incorporated in the 2009 version of pict2e; therefore this package avoids any modification to the original pict2e commands. In any case the version of curve2e is compatible with |