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diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e/README.md b/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cda901f5a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ + +# The pict2e package + +This package was described in the 2nd edition of "LaTeX: A Document +Preparation System", but the LaTeX project team declined to produce +the package. For a long time, LaTeX has included a "pict2e package" +that merely produced an apologetic error message. + +The new package extends the existing LaTeX picture environment, using +the familiar technique (cf. the graphics and color packages) of driver +files. The package documentation (pict2e.dtx) has a fair number of +examples of use, showing where things are improved by comparison with +the LaTeX picture environment. + +Caveats: + +1. Unpacking the package in the usual way (processing pict2e.ins) + produces a file pict2e-example.cfg; this file is a satisfactory + pict2e.cfg file, for most purposes. You can't generate the + documentation (by processing pict2e.dtx) unless you have a + pict2e.cfg file. so you are recommended to rename + pict2e-example.cfg as pict2e.cfg, beforehand. The file pict2e.pdf, + in the distribution, was generated in this way, using PDFLaTeX. + +2. If you have not installed the 2003/12/01 release of LaTeX, you + already have a pict2e.sty. You should ensure that you install the + new pict2e.sty in such a way that it gets chosen by your TeX system + in preference to the old version. One way of achieving this is + simply to delete the old version, which is to be found on a TDS + system in $TEXMF/tex/latex/base + +Recommended TDS locations: +``` + pict2e.sty and driver files: tex/latex/pict2e + pict2e.pdf, p2e-drivers.pdf: doc/latex/pict2e + pict2e.cfg: tex/latex/[TEXDIST]/graphics.cfg +``` + +For general installation advice, see +http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instpackages + +For bug reports use the GitHub repository: https://github.com/rolfn/pict2e/issues + |