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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2010-01-16 23:59:35 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2010-01-16 23:59:35 +0000
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tpic2pdftex 1.97 (16jan10)
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@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
Converting tpic \special's into \pdfliteral's by awk
====================================================
-The experimental awk-script tpic2pdftex.awk builds one bridge between the
+The experimental awk-script tpic2pdftex builds one bridge between the
"pic" graphics language and pdfTeX.
-What tpic2pdftex.awk does:
+What tpic2pdftex does:
We start from one or more graphics described by the venerable pic language
-(see e. g. file example.pic), embedded inline within pdfTeX or pdfLaTeX
+(see e. g., file example.pic), embedded inline within pdfTeX or pdfLaTeX
code, and limited by classical .PS and .PE markers as known from groff.
The pic graphics might be annotated by TeX or LaTeX text. This pic/TeX
-language-mix file is piped through the (groff-)pic preprocessor and
-the tpic2pdftex.awk script. The result is a TeX file with inline
-\pdfliteral{} sections, for further processing by pdftex or pdflatex.
+language-mix file is piped through the (groff-)pic preprocessor and the
+tpic2pdftex script. The result is a TeX file with inline \pdfliteral{}
+sections, for further processing by pdftex or pdflatex.
Usage
-----
-$ export LANG="C"
-$ pic -t somefile.pic | awk -f tpic2pdftex.awk > somefile.tex
+ $ export LANG="C"
+ $ pic -t somefile.pic | tpic2pdftex > somefile.tex
Process somefile.tex by pdftex or pdflatex.
@@ -27,9 +27,12 @@ Process somefile.tex by pdftex or pdflatex.
Files
-----
-tpic2pdftex.awk
- The awk script for converting tpic specials into pdfliterals for
- further processing by pdftex. For usage see head of this file.
+tpic2pdftex
+ The executable awk-script for converting tpic specials into pdfliterals
+ for further processing by pdftex. For usage see head of this file.
+
+tpic2pdftex.1
+ The man-page for tpic2pdftex.
example.pic
A small pic sample file (plain-TeX), as input.
@@ -42,6 +45,9 @@ beamerexample.pic
Another small pic sample file (pdfLaTeX), which shows that images
created by pic can be incrementally built up in the beamer class.
+beamerexample.pdf
+ The resulting PDF file from beamerexample.pic.
+
Makefile
The Makefile used to produce file example.pdf and beamerexample.pdf
from the input files.
@@ -54,11 +60,11 @@ Portability
-----------
This awk-script should be useable on all systems on which a working awk
-program (e. g. awk, gawk, mawk) is installed.
+program (e. g., awk, gawk, mawk) is installed.
The script has been tested with GNU pic (groff), versions 1.18.1 and
-1.19.1, and pdftex, versions 1.11b and 1.20a on a debian woody (3.0)
-i686 PC.
+1.19.3, and pdftex, versions 1.40.9 and 1.50.0 on a debian lenny (5.0)
+x86_64 PC.
Remarks
@@ -66,22 +72,21 @@ Remarks
1. If more than a single .pic file provide the source for the .tex file,
there are two options: Either separately run all .pic files through the
-pic -t | awk -f tpic2pdftex.awk pipe and combine them by TeX's \input
-statements as usual. Or make one big .pic file by using the soelim
-program from groff (with option -t), and then run the resulting .pic file
-through pic, tpic2pdftex, and TeX. File embedding by soelim is done by
-the request:
+pic -t | tpic2pdftex pipe and combine them by TeX's \input statements
+as usual. Or make one big .pic file by using the soelim program from
+groff (with option -t), and then run the resulting .pic file through pic,
+tpic2pdftex, and TeX. File embedding by soelim is done by the request:
-.so somefile.pic
+ .so somefile.pic
The process call then could look like e. g.:
-$ soelim -t somefile.pic | pic -t | awk -f tpic2pdftex.awk > somefile.tex
+ $ soelim -t somefile.pic | pic -t | tpic2pdftex > somefile.tex
2. Depending on the awk version, "locale" settings might have influence
on the separator in floating point numbers. PDF requires decimal _dots_
-(e. g. 3.14 rather than 3,14) which is checked by tpic2pdftex.awk at
-the begin of the run. If you get an ERROR message, set LANG="C", so that
+(e. g., 3.14 rather than 3,14) which is checked by tpic2pdftex at the
+begin of the run. If you get an ERROR message, set LANG="C", so that
decimal dots are used as float separators.
@@ -100,4 +105,4 @@ Comments welcome. Have fun!
Hartmut
-$Id: README,v 1.7 2004/04/09 20:28:49 hahe Exp hahe $
+$Id: README,v 1.11 2010/01/16 12:38:21 hahe Exp hahe $