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diff --git a/graphics/pstricks/base/README b/graphics/pstricks/base/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d665fee041 --- /dev/null +++ b/graphics/pstricks/base/README @@ -0,0 +1,125 @@ +PSTricks 2019 + +This package may be distributed under the terms of the LaTeX Project +Public License, as described in lppl.txt in the base LaTeX distribution. +Either version 1.3 or, at your option, any later version. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +PSTricks is the original work of Timothy van Zandt + +PSTricks 97 is edited by Denis Girou and Sebastian Rahtz + +PSTricks 2004 is edited by Herbert Voss <hvoss@tug.org> +and Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk@ptb.de> + +PSTricks 2005- is edited by Herbert Voss <hvoss@tug.org> + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +For more informations go to http://tug.org/PSTricks _and_ read the +news articles in the doc directory! + + +1 - Copyright + --------- + +COPYRIGHT 1993, 1994, 2000 by Timothy Van Zandt, <tvz@econ.insead.fr>. +COPYRIGHT 2004, 2005 by Herbert Voss <voss@PSTricks.de> and + Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk@ptb.de>. +COPYRIGHT 2006-- by Herbert Voss <hvoss@tug.org> + +This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms +of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN +archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt. + +2 - Introduction + ------------ + +This package is a re-release of PSTricks, incorporating all of the +beta releases and bug fixes made up to March 1997. It is *not* +intended as a full new release of PSTricks, but as a consolidation and +cleaned distribution. Because Timothy van Zandt does not currently have +enough time to work on PSTricks, he gave permission for Denis Girou, +Sebastian Rahtz and Herbert Voss to produce this interim solution. + +Some new features have been added in the 2004 version, except the release +of the small pst-fill package for filling (tiling) arbitrary regions and the +various evolving contributions, but we have merged in all the bug fixes +and beta addons which Timothy produced. + +We have renamed some of the files that make up PSTricks, for consistency. +The multido package is now in /macros/generic/multido + +3 - Installation + ------------ + +3.1 - (La)TeX files + + a - You have to move all the files from the "generic" subdirectory +to a directory part of your TEXINPUTS environment variable, or to add it +in your TEXINPUTS list of paths. + + b - If you are a LaTeX user (and not only a plain TeX one), you have +to do the same thing for the "latex" subdirectory, which define LaTeX +wrappers for all the PSTricks files. + +3.2 - PostScript header files +The file pstricks.con is the current platform specific config file. +For other platforms read the README from the config directory + +3.3 - Known pitfalls + + a - To use the standard `color' or `xcolor' package with PSTricks, you +must load the `pstricks.sty' package, which interface the two packages, +loading them in the right order, and overriding some small parts of +PSTricks to allow it to use the `color' or `xcolor' package system for +specifying color. We STRONGLY recommend that you use this way today. +pstricks.sty loads by default the xcolor package, but there is an option +"noxcolor". If you are a LaTeX user then load _always_ first the +pstricks.sty package. + + b - LaTeX users must also take care that the `pstricks.sty' package is +required in place of the `pstricks.tex' one if the `graphics' or `graphicx' +package is also loaded. + + c - Don't try to load the `color' or `xcolor' package if you use +`pstricks.sty' or `pst-all' (it is already loaded in the correct order). + +4 - Contents + -------- + +4.1 - Subdirectories + +The distribution contain the following subdirectories: + +contrib : various contributions +base : main PSTricks files + doc : documentations (up to date ones - the obsolete/doc subdirectory + contain the reference documentation for the version 0.93a and + the additional old Beta material, which is still necessary to use...) + dvips : PostScript header files + generic : TeX generic sources + latex : LaTeX wrappers + + +5 - Running pdflatex or lualatex + Load package auto-pst-pdf or auto-pst-pdf-lua and run your example with +the optional argument --shell-escape (MikTeX allows also -enable-write18) + +lualatex --shell-escape <file> +pdflatex --shell-escape <file> + +auto-pst-pdf(-lua) creates in the background all pspicture environment as single +pdf graphic files. +See documentation for more informations. + + + +6 - Documentation + ------------- +There is a mailing list devoted to discussions on PSTricks usage. +The informations to subscribe to this list and to consult the archives can +be found on the Web page. + + +-- +Denis Girou, Sebastian Rahtz and Herbert Voss (updated December 2018) |