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-* Circuit_macros Version 10.4, copyright (c) 2023 J. D. Aplevich under *
+* Circuit_macros Version 10.5, copyright (c) 2024 J. D. Aplevich under *
* the LaTeX Project Public Licence in file Licence.txt. The files of *
* this distribution may be redistributed or modified provided that this *
* copyright notice is included and provided that modifications are clearly *
@@ -267,8 +267,8 @@ VARIATIONS
find yourself writing your own macros or adapting some of these.
Be careful to rename modified macros to avoid confusion. The learning
curve compares well to other packages, but there is no trivially
- easy way to produce high-quality graphics. (If "a picture is worth
- a thousand words," ask yourself how long it would take to write, revise,
+ easy way to produce high-quality graphics. (If "a picture is worth a
+ thousand words," ask yourself how long it would take to write, revise,
and perfect a thousand words.)
See eschpic on Github for IEC-style electrical drawings.
@@ -278,10 +278,6 @@ VARIATIONS
Some additional libraries such as chem (for chemical structures)
and dformat (for data structures) are still viable.
- Pic macros for drawing graphs are described at
- http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~west/gpic.html
- After minor adaptation to dpic syntax, many of them can be simplified.
-
A collection of traditional pic resources and related material is
available at http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/troff.html In particular,
W. Richard Stevens illustrated his books on Unix and TCP/IP using
@@ -289,7 +285,8 @@ VARIATIONS
under dpic.
MetaPost examples: Go to the examples/mpost directory. Check the
- Makefile as described in the README file, type "make", and stand well back.
+ Makefile as described in the README file, type "make", and stand
+ well back.
Postscript with embedded psfrag strings:
Type "make" in the examples/psfrag directory to process examples
@@ -299,8 +296,8 @@ Postscript, CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator:
Circuits and other diagrams not requiring LaTeX-formatted text can be
processed through m4 and dpic -r to produce encapsulated Postscript
output. This output can also be imported into CorelDraw or Adobe
- Illustrator. However, Postscript is not a word processor, so any
- LaTeX formatting instructions in the source are not obeyed. These programs
+ Illustrator. However, Postscript is not a word processor, so any LaTeX
+ formatting instructions in the source are not obeyed. These programs
also import svg output produced by dpic -v.
Metafont: