new pictex package autoarea

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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/autoarea/ANNOUNCE.txt b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/autoarea/ANNOUNCE.txt
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+SUMMARY: automatic bounding boxes with PiCTeX 
+
+PiCTeX is a "generic" set of TeX macros for drawing diagrams and 
+pictures, dating from 1987, written and described by Michael J. Wichura. 
+The last extensions contributed by other authors may have occurred 
+1999. It may be difficult to find somebody who uses it today ... 
+yet two users asked me for help this year ...
+
+A new generic package `autoarea.sty' makes PiCTeX recognize lines 
+and arcs in determining the "bounding box" of a picture 
+(PiCTeX so far accounted for put commands only). 
+The "bounding box" is essential for proper placement of a picture 
+between running text and margins and for keeping the running text away. 
+Examples provided demonstrate what `autoarea.sty' does. 
+
+Yes, it should suffice to load the package to have this effect. 
+Read additional instructions and informations in the file 
+`autoarea.sty'. 
+
+`autoarea.sty' has been tested successfully on 42 geometric figures 
+from a work by medieval scholar N. Oresme, as reproduced by Dr. 
+Richard Lorch using PiCTeX. 
+
+
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/autoarea/README.aa b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/autoarea/README.aa
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+                       File README.aa for       
+             [tex-archive]/graphics/pictex/addon/autoarea/
+
+
+AUTOAREA.STY    
+    makes PiCTeX's bounding boxes account for lines and arcs. 
+    License is LPPL. Read the file for additional informations. 
+
+AUTODEMO 
+    this subdirectory demonstrates the effect of autoarea.sty . 
+
+
+________________________________________________________________________
+This file version 2008/04/25 Uwe Lueck, http://contact-ednotes.sty.de.vu
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/autoarea/autodemo/README.autodemo b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/autoarea/autodemo/README.autodemo
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+                      File README.autodemo for       
+          [tex-archive]/graphics/pictex/addon/autoarea/autodemo/
+
+
+AUTODEMO.TEX
+
+   contains a sample of code for a PiCTeX picture placed in the 
+   middle running text on one page.  
+
+AUTODEMO-.TEX
+
+   runs AUTODEMO.TEX without loading AUTOAREA.STY. The outcome is 
+
+       AUTODEMO-.PDF
+
+AUTODEMO+.TEX
+
+   runs AUTODEMO.TEX after loading AUTOAREA.STY. The outcome is 
+
+       AUTODEMO+.PDF
+
+Print both pages and watch them side by side. 
+
+
+________________________________________________________________________
+This file version 2008/04/25 Uwe Lueck, http://contact-ednotes.sty.de.vu
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/autoarea/autodemo/autodemo+.log b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/autoarea/autodemo/autodemo+.log
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+File: autodemo+.tex 2008/04/19 autoarea.sty's effect
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+("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\pictex\postpictex.tex")
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+Package: autoarea 2008/05/07 automatic accounting for PiCTeX lines and arcs
+)
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+\ProvidesFile{autodemo+.tex}[2008/04/19 autoarea.sty's effect]
+\newcommand{\autouse}{\usepackage{autoarea}}
+\newcommand{\autofoot}{loaded autoarea.sty -- circle centered}
+\input autodemo
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+\ProvidesFile{autodemo-.tex}[2008/04/19 what's missing without autoarea.sty]
+\newcommand{\autouse}{\relax}
+\newcommand{\autofoot}{didn't load autoarea.sty -- 
+                       {\bf \textit{X}} centered, circle ignored}
+\input autodemo
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/autoarea/autodemo/autodemo.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/autoarea/autodemo/autodemo.tex
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+\ProvidesFile{autodemo.tex}[2008/04/19 common sample for autoarea.sty]
+\documentclass[12pt]{article}
+\usepackage{pictex,lipsum}
+\autouse
+\pagestyle{plain}
+\renewcommand{\thepage}{\bfseries \sffamily \autofoot}
+\nofiles
+\begin{document}
+\lipsum[1]
+\[\beginpicture
+\setcoordinatesystem units <1mm,1mm> point at 0 0 
+%  \setplotarea x from -35 to 35, y from -35 to 35 %% compare to autoarea.sty 
+\circulararc 360 degrees from 0 35 center at 0 0
+\put {\textbf{\itshape X}} at -20 20
+\endpicture\]
+\lipsum[2]
+\end{document}
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/autoarea/autoarea.sty b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/autoarea/autoarea.sty
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+%% Macro package `autoarea.sty', supporting but not needing LaTeX2e, 
+%% copyright (C) 2008 Uwe Lueck [L\"uck]
+%% http://www.contact-ednotes.sty.de.vu 
+%% - author-maintained, extending PiCTeX:
+
+\begingroup\expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\endgroup
+\expandafter\ifx\csname ProvidesPackage\endcsname\relax\else
+                                                    % german.sty trick
+  \ProvidesPackage{autoarea}[2008/08/12 v0.3a 
+    automatic accounting for PiCTeX lines and arcs]
+                                                    %
+\fi
+
+% LEGAL/CONTACT 
+% 
+%% This file can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms 
+%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3c or later, cf.  
+%%      http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
+%% -- NO WARRANTY! Please report bugs, problems, and suggestions via 
+%%      http://www.contact-ednotes.sty.de.vu 
+
+% FEATURES/USAGE 
+% 
+% This is an experimental package for use with pictex[wd].sty/.tex. 
+% It works with LaTeX2e as well as with Plain TeX or LaTeX2.09. 
+% It is "experimental" in that it has come from a mixture of knowing 
+% PiCTeX internals and guesses that surprisingly seem to work. 
+% 
+% PiCTeX's \plot, \circulararc and \ellipticalarc normally don't contribute to 
+% proper placement of the picture between text and margins, which may result 
+% in pictures overlapping with text or in uneven distances to text margins. 
+% You should find a file autodemo-.pdf nearby that illustrates how this may 
+% look. 
+%
+% In such cases, the document author must use PiCTeX's \setplotarea to correct 
+% this manually, determining the "bounding box" (cf. documentation as indicated 
+% after \endinput below). PiCTeX's \put, on the opposite, normally DOES  
+% contribute to PiCTeX's automatical calculation of the boundaries. 
+% 
+% autoarea.sty tries to determine the bounding box even for lines and arcs 
+% automatically instead, so you can omit \setplotarea (at least for this 
+% purpose). You just have to load it (we hope) after pictex[wd].sty/.tex, by, 
+% e.g., 
+%
+%     \usepackage{pictexwd,autoarea} 
+%                                    or
+%     \input pictexwd
+%     \input autoarea.sty
+% 
+% The package defines just three user commands \plottedat, \autoaccountingoff, 
+% and \autoaccountingon - which you perhaps won't need, just loading the 
+% package may suffice. The samples autodemo-.pdf and autodemo+.pdf nearby both 
+% were generated by omitting \setplotarea, the difference being that 
+% autodemo+.pdf profits from \usepackage{autoarea}, which may convince you 
+% that it's worth trying autoarea. 
+% 
+% \plottedat XMIN YMIN \plottedat XMAX YMAX  may (otherwise) replace 
+% \setplotarea x from XMIN to XMAX, y from YMIN to YMAX
+% A single "\plottedat ..." may suffice if other \put commands 
+% contribute to proper placement of the picture sufficiently already. 
+
+    \expandafter %% ersatz-\newcommand if without LaTeX
+    \ifx \csname newcommand\endcsname \relax 
+         \def\newcommand#1{\def#1}           \fi
+
+\newcommand{\plottedat}{\put {} at }
+
+% (If the user doesn't want it, we still need it here!) 
+% 
+% Should a \plot or \circulararc command seem to produce more space than 
+% you want, put it between \autoaccountingoff and \autoaccountingon, 
+% then try \plottedat and \setplotarea if needed. 
+% 
+% Our trick will account for starting, ending, or corner points of curves. 
+% This may not suffice in general (e.g., with \setquadratic), 
+% then you still may need \plottedat or \setplotarea. Below \endinput you 
+% find more on CAVEATS etc. 
+
+% INTERNALS 
+
+\catcode`\!=11 % use and change PiCTeX internals 
+
+\let\PT!!start\!start \let\PT!!ljoin\!ljoin \let\PT!!qjoin\!qjoin
+\def\PTaa!start (#1,#2){\plottedat #1 #2 \PT!!start (#1,#2)}
+\def\PTaa!ljoin (#1,#2){\plottedat #1 #2 \PT!!ljoin (#1,#2)}
+\def\PTaa!qjoin (#1,#2) (#3,#4){% 
+  \plottedat #1 #2 \plottedat #3 #4 \PT!!qjoin (#1,#2) (#3,#4)}
+
+\expandafter\ifx\csname newcommand\endcsname \def\newcommand#1{\def#1} \fi
+
+\newcommand{\autoaccountingon}{% 
+  \let\!start\PTaa!start \let\!ljoin\PTaa!ljoin \let\!qjoin\PTaa!qjoin} 
+  
+\newcommand{\autoaccountingoff}{% 
+  \let\!start\PT!!start \let\!ljoin\PT!!ljoin \let\!qjoin\PT!!qjoin}
+
+\catcode`\!=12
+
+\autoaccountingon % turns on automatic accounting for lines and arcs. 
+
+\endinput %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+
+CAVEATS 
+
+1. I won't try to find out whether autoarea.sty makes \setplotarea entirely 
+superfluous: will drawing a coordinate system work without \setplotarea? 
+
+2. Certainly it was not due to dullness that PiCTeX didn't provide autoarea's 
+feature originally. Around 1990, it was important to care for speed with PiCTeX 
+(and it may still be, I won't try complex examples). 
+Apart from up to four, line and arc commands are irrelevant for placing the 
+picture correctly. About the same holds for put commands, and that's why PiCTeX 
+has \accountingoff and \accountingon to ignore many of them. Our \autoaccountingoff 
+and \autoaccountingon serve the analoguous purpose for line and arc commands. 
+
+3. I don't know exactly how arc commands work, therefore I wouldn't be astonished 
+if the result still is not properly centered. Our trick is take account of some 
+points all of which an approximating curve must meet. Can that curve bend out of 
+the bounding rectangle of those points? 
+
+
+ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
+
+This work has been supported by edition projects at the Institute for 
+the History of the Sciences directed by Prof. Dr. Menso Folkerts. 
+Thanks to Dr. Richard Lorch for introducing me to the subject. 
+
+
+
+CHANGE HISTORY
+
+v0.1   2008/02/14    Working, addressed compatibility with ArabTeX.  
+v0.2   2008/02/14a   Moved compatibility to lorchpic.sty. 
+                     This one submitted to CTAN, soon kind of withdrawn. 
+v0.3   2008/04/19    Made generic, expanded prose. 
+       2008/04/25    `Lueck', not `Lück', for UNIX etc. 
+       2008/05/07    ersatz-\newcommand earlier, typo; 
+                     removed remarks on PiCTeX documentation. 
+       2008/05/08    Added version numbers, corrected ersatz-\newcommand; 
+                     uploaded in pictex_may_2008.zip - in vain. 
+v0.3a  2008/08/12    typo fix "too text" -> "to text". 
+
+_________________________________________________________________________
+
+FORMER VERSION 2008/02/13 (ul, 2008/02/14): 
+
+I couldn't find a working redefinition of \circulararc 
+("Use of \ellipticalarc doesn't match its definition"); 
+on the other hand its internals seem to the job all ready; 
+and my redefinition seemed to raise further difficulties. 
+Here's what I had tried before: 
+
+% \circulararc may do the trick for full circles (360 degree) only. 
+% CAVEAT: assumes that x and y units are the same. 
+% Otherwise or when something else goes wrong, put \circulararc between 
+% \autoaccountingarcoff and \autoaccountingarcon. 
+% 
+% These features come from the start if you load the present package. 
+
+\catcode`\!=11 % use and change PiCTeX internals 
+
+\let\PT@@start\!start \let\PT@@ljoin\!ljoin \let\PT@@qjoin\!qjoin
+\def\PTaa@start (#1,#2){\plottedat #1 #2 \PT@@start (#1,#2)}
+\def\PTaa@ljoin (#1,#2){\plottedat #1 #2 \PT@@ljoin (#1,#2)}
+\def\PTaa@qjoin (#1,#2) (#3,#4){% 
+  \plottedat #1 #2 \plottedat #3 #4 \PT@@qjoin (#1,#2) (#3,#4)}
+
+\let\PT@@circulararc\circulararc
+\def\PTaa@circulararc #1 degrees from #2 #3 center at #4 #5 {%
+  \ifnum #1=360 
+    \!dimenE=#2pt \advance\!dimenE-#4pt
+    \!dimenF=#2pt \advance\!dimenF-#4pt
+    \!Pythag\!dimenE\!dimenF\!dimenG 
+    \PTaa@plotcorner{#4}{#5}{-}%
+    \PTaa@plotcorner{#4}{#5}{}%
+  \fi
+  % \PT@@circulararc  #1 degrees from #2 #3 center at #4 #5 
+  %\PT@@circulararc #1 degrees from #2 #3 center at #4 #5 }
+  \ellipticalarc axes ratio 1:1 360 degrees from 0 25 center at 0 0 }
+  %\ellipticalarc axes ratio 1:1 #1 degrees from #2 #3 center at #4 #5 }
+\def\PTaa@plotcorner#1#2#3{%
+    \!dimenE#1pt \!dimenF#2pt
+    \advance\!dimenE#3\!dimenG \advance\!dimenF#3\!dimenG
+    \!removept\!dimenE\@tempa \!removept\!dimenF\@tempb
+    \edef\@tempc{\noexpand\plottedat \@tempa\space\@tempb}%
+    \@tempc
+}
+% <-: 
+% 1.  May be \!qjoin of \ellipticalarc does the trick already. 
+% 2. FUTURE: \accountingcircle[tbrl] if circle isn't full. 
+% 3. CAVEAT: May not work in dimension mode. 
+% 4. May be improvable with better knowledge of internals than mine. 
+
+\newcommand{\autoaccountingon}{% 
+  \let\!start\PTaa@start \let\!ljoin\PTaa@ljoin \let\!qjoin\PTaa@qjoin
+  \autoaccountingarcon} 
+\newcommand{\autoaccountingarcon}{\let\circulararc\PTaa@circulararc} 
+\newcommand{\autoaccountingoff}{% 
+  \let\!start\PT@@start \let\!ljoin\PT@@ljoin \let\!qjoin\PT@@qjoin
+  % <- Yet I can't imagine why this could be needed, just in case ...
+  \autoaccountingarcoff} 
+\newcommand{\autoaccountingarcoff}{\let\circulararc\PT@@circulararc} 
+
+% \setnone FROM ARABTEX SUFFICES INSTEAD OF: 
+% 
+% COMPATIBILITY WITH ARABTEX ETC. 
+%
+% ArabTeX and possibly other packages may disable PiCTeX commands 
+% using "<...,...>" syntax, notably \setcoordinatesystem units <1mm,1mm> etc. 
+%% TODO: TeX error:
+% Precede such a command (if it breaks) with \restoreanglesyntax, 
+% best after \beginpicture to avoid disabling the other package.
+
+\newcommand{\restoreanglesyntax}{\@makeother\<\@makeother\>}
+
+%% todo: or better "compatibility" package ptangles.sty introducing 
+%%       syntax without <...>!?
+
+%%% end of file
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tlpkg-ctan-check b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tlpkg-ctan-check
index 482904223b4..8e1845c6bb7 100755
--- a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tlpkg-ctan-check
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tlpkg-ctan-check
@@ -30,9 +30,10 @@ my @WorkingTLP = qw(
           amsthdoc-it animate ANUfinalexam anyfontsize anysize
           apa apacite appendix apl
           arabi arabtex arabxetex archaic arcs arev
-          armenian AroBend arphic arrayjob arydshln Asana-Math ascii assignment astro
-          attachfile aurical authoraftertitle authorindex auto-pst-pdf automata
-          auncial-new
+          armenian AroBend arphic arrayjob arydshln Asana-Math ascii
+          assignment astro
+          attachfile auncial-new aurical authoraftertitle authorindex
+          auto-pst-pdf autoarea automata
         babel babelbib bangtex barcodes bbcard bbold
           beamer beamer-contrib beamer-tut-pt begriff bera betababel beton
           bez123 bezos bibhtml bibleref bibtopic bibtopicprefix
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tlpkginfo b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tlpkginfo
index 67cf631717b..dbe3d4d17ed 100755
--- a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tlpkginfo
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tlpkginfo
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ sub find_ctan_dir
       "help/$me",				# es-tex-faq
       "graphics/$me",				# sparklines
       "graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/$me",	# mpattern
+      "graphics/pictex/addon/$me",		# autoarea
       "graphics/pstricks/contrib/pedigree/$me",	# pst-pdgr
       "graphics/pstricks/contrib/$me",		# pstricks-add
       "fonts/$me",				# MnSymbol
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/autoarea.tlpsrc b/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/autoarea.tlpsrc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..11c54853e50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/autoarea.tlpsrc
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+name autoarea
+category Package
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/collection-pictures.tlpsrc b/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/collection-pictures.tlpsrc
index 6a8e757b76e..7ae01d8d259 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/collection-pictures.tlpsrc
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/collection-pictures.tlpsrc
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 name collection-pictures
 category Collection
 shortdesc Graphics packages
+depend autoarea
 depend bardiag
 depend curve
 depend curve2e