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+@book{1,
+author = "Wichura, Michael J.",
+keyword = "pictex",
+publisher = "{\TeX} Users Group",
+reprint = "IN FILE",
+title = "The {\PiCTeX\ } Manual",
+year = "1987",
+}
+
+@book{2,
+author = "Knappen, J{\"o}rg and Hubert Partl and Elisabeth Schlegl and Irene Hyna",
+keyword = "latex",
+publisher = "Dante",
+reprint = "IN FILE",
+title = "{\LaTeX~2$_\epsilon$}-Kurzbeschreibung",
+year = "1994",
+}
+
+@book{3,
+author = "Lamport, Leslie",
+publisher = "Addison-Wesley Co., Inc.",
+reprint = "IN FILE",
+title = "{\LaTeX} a document preparation system",
+year = "1985",
+}
+
+@book{4,
+author = "Knuth, Donald E.",
+keyword = "tex
+latex
+Knuth",
+publisher = "Addison-Wesley Co., Inc.",
+reprint = "IN FILE",
+title = "The {\TeX}book",
+year = "1991",
+}
+
diff --git a/support/fastpictex/doc/manual/fastpictex.ltx b/support/fastpictex/doc/manual/fastpictex.ltx
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index 0000000000..b019677fc4
--- /dev/null
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+\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
+\usepackage{pictex}
+\usepackage{graphics}
+\usepackage{citesort}
+\usepackage{verbatim}
+\usepackage{rotating}
+
+% ** Macros **
+\def\FastPiCTeX{F\kern-.30em\lower.5ex\hbox{A}\kern-.12emS\kern-.18em\lower-0.5ex\hbox{T}\PiCTeX}
+
+\author{
+Harald Martin Stau\ss, MD \\
+Dept. of Integrative Physiology \\
+The University of Iowa \\
+410 Field House \\
+Iowa City, IA 52245 \\
+USA \\
+e-mail: harald-stauss@uiowa.edu
+}
+
+\title{Generating Charts with \FastPiCTeX}
+\date{\today}
+
+\begin{document}
+\maketitle
+
+{
+\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
+{\bf \FastPiCTeX:} H. M. Stau\ss, 2$^{nd}$~edition, 2008
+
+\vfill
+\begin{center}
+Dedicated to \\
+the Free Software Foundation \\
+ and all \TeX\ users
+\end{center}
+
+\vfill This manual was generated using \LaTeX\ and \PiCTeX. The
+sources of the \FastPiCTeX\ program together with the \LaTeX\ sources
+of this manual are freely available. The rules of the GNU public
+license apply. The author would appreciate receiving picture postcards
+of the home town of people who like this program. }
+
+\tableofcontents
+\listoffigures
+%\listoftables
+
+\chapter{GNU general public license}
+\begin{center}
+Version 2, June 1991 \\
+\vspace*{1em}
+Copyright \copyright \ 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. \\
+675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA \\
+Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies \\
+of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. \\
+\end{center}
+
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+\chapter{Introduction}
+When I was writing my doctoral thesis in the late 80$^{th}$, I spent
+my total savings and bought an IBM-compatible personal computer, that
+was based on a 8080~microprocessor. Of course, I was using \LaTeX\ as
+text-processing software. Inspired by my brother Bernhard, I decided to
+use \PiCTeX\ to generate the charts for my thesis. However, I soon
+recognized that the \TeX\ version that I used at this time (PC\TeX)
+was not suitable to generate \PiCTeX\ charts, since I very often
+received messages, such as: \\
+\verb|! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size = 65536 bytes]|
+
+Finally, the excellent \TeX\ implementation from Eberhard Mattes
+appeared and I could use Big\TeX\ to generate my theses using the
+MS-DOS operating system. Later, I switched to the Linux operating
+system that came with the te\TeX\ implementation and memory management
+was no longer a limitation. Today, I am using the MikTeX
+implementation of \TeX\ on the MS-Windows Vista operating system. The
+old original files of my doctoral thesis still run smoothly through
+MikTeX without modifications and that is 20 years after the thesis was
+written.
+
+However, the use of \PiCTeX\ for generating charts is still quite time
+consuming, because the \PiCTeX\ macro language, although very
+powerful, is somewhat awkward. Pictures must be described by the
+\PiCTeX\ programming language and usually a lot of debugging is
+necessary to obtain the desired result. This may be the largest
+disadvantage of \PiCTeX. Otherwise, \PiCTeX\ is very advanced and
+offers nearly everything necessary to generate very nice charts of
+scientific data material. In order to overcome the time consuming part
+of generating the \PiCTeX\ code, I decided to write a
+\PiCTeX-preprocessor that does all the nasty part in generating
+\PiCTeX\ code. This preprocessor takes a very simple macro file as
+input and generates an output file containing the \PiCTeX\ code. The
+output file can then be included in a document by the \verb|\input|
+command. As with most preprocessors there are some limitations of
+\FastPiCTeX. First, only numerical diagrams based on data material can
+be generated. Second, only a limited set of commands are implemented,
+offering only basic instructions. Therefore, fine tuning the \PiCTeX\
+code is usually still necessary. However, a working skeleton of the
+\PiCTeX\ file can be generated easily by \FastPiCTeX.
+
+\chapter{Installation and Usage}
+To use \FastPiCTeX\ you certainly need \TeX. \TeX\ was developed by
+Donald E. Knuth. His \TeX book \cite{4} is the basis of all packages
+based on the most advanced typesetting software available for almost
+any computer platform. In addition to \TeX\ you also need \LaTeX\ that
+was developed as an extension to \TeX\ by Leslie Lamport who has
+written the original \LaTeX\ manual \cite{3}. In addition, you need
+\PiCTeX\ that is described in \cite{1}. The \PiCTeX\ manual by the
+author of \PiCTeX, Michael J. Wichura, is an indepth description of
+the \PiCTeX\ system and is certainly worth to read. The \PiCTeX\
+manual used to be freely available on the Internet. Currently, it is
+only available for purchase.
+
+Installation of \FastPiCTeX\ is as simple as unpacking the archive,
+and running make. A binary executable version of \FastPiCTeX\ for the
+MS-DOS/Windows operating system is included. Compilation of the
+program for other operatign systems should be straight forward with
+any standard C++ compiler (I have used the MinGW Compiler).
+\begin{verbatim}
+tar -xzvf fastpictex-x.y.tar.gz
+cd fastpictex-x.y/src
+make
+\end{verbatim}
+
+Once you have generated the executable, you are ready to generate
+\PiCTeX\ code in just a few seconds. \verb.fastpictex. is a command
+line program that accepts two parameters: the input file name and the
+output file name. The input file is a \FastPiCTeX\ macro file, while
+the output file is the \PiCTeX\ code that can be included in a \LaTeX\
+document. Thus, running \FastPiCTeX\ is as simple as typing:
+\begin{center}
+\verb.fastpictex file_in file_out.
+\end{center}
+
+As an example, consider the very simple input file
+(\verb|bargraph.fpt|) that generates a bargraph with four columns and
+standard-error bars:
+
+\verbatiminput{bargraph.fpt}
+
+To generate a \PiCTeX\ file that can be included in any \LaTeX\ file
+(the \PiCTeX\ package must be included) run the command:
+\begin{center}
+\verb|fastpictex bargraph.fpt bargraph.ltx|
+\end{center}
+
+A \LaTeX\ document that includes the bargraph (see Fig.~\ref{bargraph})
+generated by \FastPiCTeX\ could be:
+\begin{verbatim}
+\documentclass[12pt]{book}
+\usepackage{pictex}
+\begin{document}
+This is a pretty nice bar graph: \\
+\input bargraph.ltx
+\end{document}
+\end{verbatim}
+
+\begin{figure}
+\input bargraph.ltx
+\caption[A bargraph]{\small \label{bargraph} This bargraph was
+produced by \FastPiCTeX\ by only four lines of input code.}
+\end{figure}
+
+\chapter{The macro language}
+The \FastPiCTeX\ macro language consists of a few commands that can be
+used to design a chart. The series of comands that compose a chart are
+generally written to a file using a text editor, such as emacs or
+vi. A command always starts in the first column of a line. Following
+the command word at least one whitespace character must be inserted
+before the parameters for the command are added. The parameters for
+the commands are also separated by whitspace characters and can
+continue in subsequent lines. However, if several lines are used for
+one command, then the subsequent lines must start with at least one
+whitespace character (instead of with a command word). As an example,
+consider the following macro for the line graph shown in
+Fig.~\ref{linegraph}:
+
+\verbatiminput{linegraph.fpt}
+
+\begin{figure}
+\input linegraph.ltx
+\caption[A linegraph]{\small \label{linegraph} A linegraph.}
+\end{figure}
+
+In this example, the \verb.x. and \verb.y. commands are spread over
+two lines. Note, that the second lines for these commands start with
+whitespace characters. Whitespace characters can be blanks or
+tabulators.
+
+It is also possible to design charts with more than one series of
+data. For each series of data, commands must be provided as
+demonstrated in the next example. The example consists of three series
+of xy charts. The resulting chart is shown in
+Fig.~\ref{xygraph}. Note, that the three data series are automatically
+distinguished by different symbols (i.e. by filled circles, open
+circles, and by diamonds).
+
+\verbatiminput{xygraph.fpt}
+
+\begin{figure}
+\input xygraph.ltx
+\caption[A XY-graph with three series]{\small \label{xygraph} A
+XY-graph with three series.}
+\end{figure}
+
+In addition, it is possible to combine different graph types in one
+chart. Consider an example, in which the data points of an XY-Graph
+should be connected by lines. A macro file for such a chart
+composition is shown in the next example (Fig.~\ref{mixgraph}).
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+type xy
+x 1 2 3 4 5
+y 9 12 15 17 19
+dx 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.7
+dy 0.8 0.9 1.2 2.0 2.4
+type line
+x 1 2 3 4 5
+y 9 12 15 17 19
+\end{verbatim}
+
+\begin{figure}
+\input mixgraph.ltx
+\caption[A graph with different chart types]{\small \label{mixgraph} A
+graph with different chart types.}
+\end{figure}
+
+If a chart that consists of several series is to be composed, it is
+important to understand, how \FastPiCTeX\ handels the order of the
+commands. If a command word occurs for the first time, the command
+belongs to the first series. If the command word appears for a second
+or third time, it belongs to the second or third series. Therefore,
+the example that generated Fig.~\ref{mixgraph} could have also been
+written as:
+\begin{verbatim}
+type xy
+type line
+x 1 2 3 4 5
+x 1 2 3 4 5
+y 9 12 15 17 19
+y 9 12 15 17 19
+dx 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.7
+dy 0.8 0.9 1.2 2.0 2.4
+\end{verbatim}
+
+
+In the following sections of this chapter, the various commands are
+described in detail. For each command, examples are given as to how to
+use the commands.
+
+
+\section{Comments, the \% command}
+To add comments, use the command word \%. As an example, the macro
+code for one of the former examples (Fig~\ref{mixgraph}) can be
+written as:
+
+\verbatiminput{mixgraph.fpt}
+
+\section{The size command}
+The size command allows to define the width and height of the
+plot. The parameters of the size command are the width and the height
+of the chart which must both be given in units of centimeters (cm). If
+no size command is given, the width and height both default to
+6~cm. The output of the following example is shown in
+figure~\ref{size}.
+
+\verbatiminput{size.fpt}
+
+\begin{figure}
+\input size.ltx
+\caption[An example with a non-standard size]{\small \label{size}
+An example with a non-standard size.}
+\end{figure}
+
+\section{The type command}
+The type command defines what kind of chart should be generated. The
+available chart types are:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item XY-graphs
+\item line graphs
+\item bar graphs
+\end{itemize}
+Please keep in mind, that you must enter a type command for every
+series in your chart. It is \textbf{not} possible to define the
+chart type once for all series!
+
+\subsection{XY-Graphs}
+To generate a XY-graph, simply use ``\verb|type xy|''. An example is
+given in Fig.~\ref{xygraph}. With XY-graphs it is sometimes
+interesting to study the correlation between the two variables X and
+Y. With \FastPiCTeX\ this can be accomplished by the ``\verb|tline|''
+command explained later.
+
+\subsection{Line-Graphs}
+To generate a line-graph, use ``\verb|type line|''. An example is
+given in Fig.~\ref{linegraph}.
+
+\subsection{Bar-Graphs}
+To generate a bar-graph, use the command ``\verb|type bar|''. An
+example is given in Fig.~\ref{bargraph}. The x-coordinates of
+bar-graphs always start at~1 and increase by steps of~1. Therefore,
+the x~command for a bar graph may consist of only the letter~x and no
+actual x-coordinates.
+
+\section{The tline command - Regression lines}
+The ``\verb|tline|'' command generates regression lines and the linear
+regression equation for XY-graphs. The ``\verb|tline|'' command is
+followed by a parameter that can be 0, 1, or 2. A parameter of 0 is
+equivalent to not type the ``\verb|tline|'' command at all.
+
+\begin{description}
+\item []\verb|tline 0| no regression line and no linear regression
+ equation.
+\item []\verb|tline 1| regression line but no linear regression
+ equation.
+\item []\verb|tline 2| regression line and linear regression equation.
+\end{description}
+
+Below is the \FastPiCTeX\ code of a small example with regression
+lines. The corresponding graph is shown in
+Fig.~\ref{tline_easy}. Please note that the linear regression equation
+is only printed for the second XY-graph because the parameter for the
+\verb|tline| command for the first XY-graph is ``1''.
+
+\verbatiminput{tline_easy.fpt}
+
+\begin{figure}[htb]
+\input tline_easy.ltx
+\caption[A small example with regression lines]{\small
+ \label{tline_easy} A small example with regression lines.}
+\end{figure}
+
+A more complex example of a \FastPiCTeX\ file with regression lines is
+shown below and the corresponding graph is povided in
+Fig.~\ref{tline_complex}. The
+\verb|\begin{sideways} ... \end{sideways}| environment used in this
+example requires the rotating package.
+
+\verbatiminput{tline_complex.fpt}
+
+\begin{figure}
+\input tline_complex.ltx
+\caption[A complex example with regression lines]{\small
+ \label{tline_complex} A complex example with regression lines. The
+ legend was moved from the right side of the figure to the bottom by
+ editing the \LaTeX\ file of the diagram.}
+\end{figure}
+
+\section{The x command}
+The x command is used to define the x-coordinates. A x~command is
+required for every series in a chart. However, the actual
+x~coordinates may be omitted (i.e. the x~command consists of only the
+letter~x). In this case the x-values are assumed to start at~1 and
+increase by steps of~1. For example, consider the following graph that
+is composed of bar, line, and xy series (Fig.~\ref{x-command}):
+
+\verbatiminput{x-command.fpt}
+
+The bars and lines of the resulting graph (Fig.~\ref{x-command}) have their
+x-coordinates at 1, 2, 3, and 4. These x-coordinates are automatically
+defined by \FastPiCTeX.
+
+\begin{figure}
+\input x-command.ltx
+\caption[An example without x-coordinates]{\small \label{x-command} An
+example without x-coordinates.}
+\end{figure}
+
+\section{The xticlabels command}
+The xticlabels command allows to define labels for the tics at the
+x-axis. Examples are given in Fig.~\ref{xticlabels} that were created
+by the \FastPiCTeX\ commands:
+\verbatiminput{xticlabels1.fpt}
+and
+\verbatiminput{xticlabels2.fpt}
+
+If the labels contain blanks, you may enclose the entire label in
+quotes as demonstrated in on of the examples. One limitation is that it is
+not possible to use \LaTeX\ formatting commands such as {\verb.\bf.} or
+{\verb.\it.} in xticlabels.
+
+\begin{center}
+\begin{figure}
+\small
+\input xticlabels1.ltx
+\input xticlabels2.ltx
+\caption[Examples with labels at the tics of the x-axis]{\small
+\label{xticlabels} Examples with labels at the tics of the x-axis.}
+\end{figure}
+\end{center}
+
+\section{The y command}
+The y command is used to define the y-coordinates. This command is
+required for every series in a graph. It is possible to add a string
+(enclosed in doublequotes) directly (without any whitespace) after the
+numbers for the y-values. This string will be printed on top of the
+data point in the chart. This feature allows to add asterisks to
+indicate that this data point is significant or to add other kind of
+information to a specific data point. Examples are given in
+Fig.~\ref{bargraph}, \ref{asterisk}, and~\ref{legend-command}. The
+latter one was produced by the following \FastPiCTeX\ commands:
+
+\verbatiminput{asterisk.fpt}
+
+\begin{center}
+\begin{figure}
+\small
+\input asterisk.ltx
+\caption[An example giving extra information on data points]{\small
+\label{asterisk} An example giving extra information on data points.}
+\end{figure}
+\end{center}
+
+\section{The dx command}
+The dx command can be used to define error bars in x-direction. For
+example, if the standard errors are given, \FastPiCTeX\ draws
+horizontal error bars extending to the left and to the right by
+$\pm$~the standard errors. An example is given in Fig.~\ref{mixgraph}.
+
+\section{The dy command}
+The dy command can be used to define error bars in y-direction. For
+example, if the standard errors are given, \FastPiCTeX\ draws vertical
+error bars extending up- and downwards by $\pm$~the standard
+errors. Examples are given in Figs.~\ref{bargraph}, \ref{mixgraph},
+and \ref{x-command}.
+
+\section{The heading command}
+The heading command can be used to define a heading for a chart. The
+heading is placed above the chart. Standard \LaTeX\ formatting
+commands can be used as illustrated in the example given in
+Fig.~\ref{heading}.
+
+\verbatiminput{heading.fpt}
+
+\begin{figure}
+\input heading.ltx
+\caption[A chart with a heading]{\small \label{heading} A chart with a
+heading.}
+\end{figure}
+
+\section{The xlabel and ylabel commands}
+These two commands can be used to enter a label to the x- and
+y-axis. Like in the heading command, regular \LaTeX\ formatting
+instructions can be included. If the y-axis label should be rotated by
+90$^\circ$, the command ``\verb.\rotatebox{}{}.'' can be used. This
+command is included in the graphics package distributed with most
+\TeX\ and \LaTeX\ distributions. However, the
+``\verb.\rotatebox{}{}.'' command uses special commands that can only
+be handeled by some DVI-drivers, such as the DVIPS driver. Another
+alternative is the rotating package that offers the
+\verb|\begin{sideways} ... \end{sideways}| environment that has been
+used to generate Fig.~\ref{tline_complex}. An example using the
+``\verb.\stack{}.'' command to write the y-axis label vertically is
+shown in the next Figure (Fig.~\ref{axislabels}).
+
+\verbatiminput{axislabels.fpt}
+
+\begin{figure}
+\input axislabels.ltx
+\caption[A chart with a heading and labels at the axis]{\small
+\label{axislabels} A chart with a heading and labels at the axis.}
+\end{figure}
+
+\section{The xgrid and ygrid commands}
+If these commands are given, gridlines will be drawn in the x or y
+direction respectively. The commands do not need any parameters. If
+the xgrid or ygrid commands are not given, no gridlines will be
+drawn. An example is given in Fig.~\ref{grids} that was generated by
+the following commands:
+
+\verbatiminput{grids.fpt}
+
+\begin{figure}
+\input grids.ltx
+\caption[A chart with grid lines]{\small
+\label{grids} A chart with grid lines.}
+\end{figure}
+
+\section{The legend command}
+If several series of data are plotted in one single diagram, one need
+to know which series represents which data. To add a legend to a
+series simply use: ``\verb|legend description of data series|''. An
+example is given in Fig.~\ref{legend-command} that was generated by
+the following \FastPiCTeX\ file:
+
+\verbatiminput{legend.fpt}
+
+\begin{figure}
+\input legend.ltx
+\caption[An example with legends]{\small \label{legend-command} An
+example with legends.}
+\end{figure}
+
+
+\section{The pictex command}
+Text following the pictex command is simply copied into the pictex
+file to be interpreted by \PiCTeX. This command allows adding plain
+\PiCTeX\ instructions to \FastPiCTeX\ files. The syntax for this command
+is not very complicate:
+``\verb|pictex whatever you want to pass on to pictex|''. An example
+is provided in Fig.~\ref{pictex-command} that was generated by the
+following \FastPiCTeX\ code:
+
+\verbatiminput{pictex-command.fpt}
+
+\begin{figure}
+\input pictex-command.ltx
+\caption[\PiCTeX\ commands included in \FastPiCTeX]{\small
+\label{pictex-command} \PiCTeX\ commands included in \FastPiCTeX.}
+\end{figure}
+
+
+% Bibliography
+
+\bibliographystyle{plain}
+\bibliography{fastpictex}
+
+\end{document}
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