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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2007-12-28 19:57:02 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2007-12-28 19:57:02 +0000 |
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uk-tex-faq 3.17 (7nov07)
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-usepictex.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-usepictex.html index 0ea68358b47..9f5bf31140e 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-usepictex.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-usepictex.html @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ <head> <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label usepictex</title> </head><body> -<h3>Why can’t I load PiCTeX?</h3> -<p>PiCTeX is a resource hog; fortunately, most modern TeX +<h3>Why can’t I load PicTeX?</h3> +<p/>PicTeX is a resource hog; fortunately, most modern TeX implementations offer generous amounts of space, and most modern computers are pretty fast, so users aren’t too badly affected by its performance. -<p>However, PiCTeX has the further unfortunate tendency to fill up +<p/>However, PicTeX has the further unfortunate tendency to fill up TeX’s fixed-size arrays — notably the array of 256 ‘dimension’ registers. This is a particular problem when you’re using <i>pictex.sty</i> with LaTeX and some other packages that also need @@ -23,28 +23,28 @@ extending TeX itself. <a href="FAQ-etex.html">e-TeX</a> and <a href="FAQ-omegaleph.html">Omega</a> both do this, as does <a href="FAQ-commercial.html">MicroPress Inc’s VTeX</a>. -<p>It’s actually quite practical (with most modern distributions) to use +<p/>It’s actually quite practical (with most modern distributions) to use e-TeX’s extended register set: use package <i>etex</i> (which comes with e-TeX distributions) and the allocation mechanism is -altered to cope with the larger register set: PiCTeX will now load. -<p>If you’re in some situation where you can’t use e-TeX, you need to change -PiCTeX; unfortunately PiCTeX’s author is no longer active in the +altered to cope with the larger register set: PicTeX will now load. +<p/>If you’re in some situation where you can’t use e-TeX, you need to change +PicTeX; unfortunately PicTeX’s author is no longer active in the TeX world, so one must resort to patching. There are two solutions available. -<p>The ConTeXt module <i>m-pictex.tex</i> (for Plain TeX and +<p/>The ConTeXt module <i>m-pictex.tex</i> (for Plain TeX and variants) or the corresponding LaTeX <i>m-pictex</i> package provide an ingenious solution to the problem based on hacking the code of <code>\</code><code>newdimen</code> itself. -<p>Alternatively, Andreas Schell’s <i>pictexwd</i> and related -packages replace PiCTeX with a version that uses 33 fewer +<p/>Alternatively, Andreas Schell’s <i>pictexwd</i> and related +packages replace PicTeX with a version that uses 33 fewer <code>\</code><code>dimen</code> registers; so use <i>pictexwd</i> in place of <i>pictex</i> (either as a LaTeX package, or as a file to read into Plain TeX). -<p>And how does one use PiCTeX anyway, given that the +<p/>And how does one use PicTeX anyway, given that the manual is so <a href="FAQ-docpictex.html">hard to come by</a>? Fortunately for us all, the <i>MathsPic</i> system may be used to translate a somewhat different language into -PiCTeX commands; and the <i>MathsPic</i> manual is free (and +PicTeX commands; and the <i>MathsPic</i> manual is free (and part of the distribution). <i>MathsPic</i> is available either as a <i>Basic</i> program for DOS, or as a <i>Perl</i> program for other systems (including Windows, nowadays). @@ -54,5 +54,5 @@ program for other systems (including Windows, nowadays). <dt><tt><i>MathsPic</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/mathspic.zip">graphics/mathspic</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/mathspic.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/mathspic/">browse</a>) <dt><tt><i>pictexwd.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pictex/addon.zip">graphics/pictex/addon</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pictex/addon.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pictex/addon/">browse</a>) </dl> -<p><p><p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=usepictex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=usepictex</a> +<p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=usepictex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=usepictex</a> </body> |