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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2020-05-05 03:00:58 +0000
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@@ -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