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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
%% License information appended
%%
File README.txt for package curve2e
- [2019-10-21 v.2.0.4 Extension package for pict2e]
+ [2019-11-30 v.2.0.6 Extension package for pict2e]
@@ -19,30 +19,29 @@ The package bundle curve2e is composed of the following files
curve2e.dtx
curve2e.pdf
README.txt
-curve2e-v161.sty
ltxdoc.cfg
curve2e.dtx is the documented TeX source file of file curve2e.sty; you
-get both curve2e.sty and curve2e.pdf by running pdflatex on curve2e.dtx.
-The ltxdoc.cfg file customises the way the documentation file is typeset.
-This .cfg file is not subject to the LPPL licence.
+get curve2e.sty, curve2e.pdf, and curve2e-v161.sty by running pdflatex
+on curve2e.dtx. The ltxdoc.cfg file customises the way the documentation
+file is typeset. This specific .cfg file is part of the ltxdoc package functionality and it is supposed to be configured for each specifica other bundle.
README.txt, this file, contains general information.
-Curve2e-v161.sty contains the previous version of the package; see below
+Curve2e-v161.sty contains a previous version of the package; see below
why the older version might become necessary for the end user.
Curve2e.sty is an extension of the package pict2e.sty which extends the
standard picture LaTeX environment according to what Leslie Lamport
-specified in the second edition of his LaTeX manual.
-
-This further extension allows to draw lines and vectors with any non
-integer slope parameters, to draw dashed 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 the 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.
+specified in the second edition of his LaTeX manual (1994).
+
+This further extension curve2e.sty allows to draw lines and vectors
+with any non integer slope parameters, to draw dashed 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
+the 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.
Some of these features have been incorporated in the 2011 version of
pict2e; therefore this package avoids any modification to the original
pict2e commands.
@@ -50,14 +49,14 @@ pict2e commands.
Curve2e now accepts polar coordinates in addition to the usual cartesian
ones; several macros have been upgraded and a new macro for tracing cubic
Bezier splines with their control nodes specified in polar form is
-available. The same applies to quadratic Bezier splines. The multiput
+available. The same applies to quadratic Bezier splines. The \multiput
command has been completely modified in a backwards compatible way, as
-to manipulate the increment components.
+to manipulate the increment components in a configurable way.
This version solves a conflict with package eso-pic.
This version of curve2e is almost fully compatible with pict2e dated
-2014/01/12 version 0.2z.
+2014/01/12 version 0.2z and later.
If you specify
@@ -67,7 +66,7 @@ the package pict2e is automatically invoked with the specified options.
The -almost compatible- frase is necessary to explain that this version
of curve2e uses some `functions' of the LaTeX3 language that were made
-available to the LaTeX developer by mid October 2018. Should the user
+available to the LaTeX developers by mid October 2018. Should the user
have an older or a basic/incomplete installation of the TeX system,
such L3 functions might not be available. This is why this
package checks the presence of the developer interface; in case
@@ -84,8 +83,8 @@ as long as you fulfil the few conditions set forth by the Licence.
Nevertheless this package is an extension to the standard LaTeX package
pict2e (2014). Therefore any change must be controlled on the
-parent package pict2e, so as to avoid redefining what has already been
-incorporated in the official package.
+parent package pict2e, so as to avoid redefining or interfering with
+what is already contained in the official package.
If you prefer sending me your modifications, as long as I will maintain
this package, I will possibly include every (documented) suggestion or