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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label usepictex</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Why can&#8217;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&#8217;t too badly affected by its
-performance.
-<p/>However, PicTeX has the further unfortunate tendency to fill up
-TeX&#8217;s fixed-size arrays &#8212; notably the array of 256 &#8216;dimension&#8217;
-registers. This is a particular problem when you&#8217;re using
-<i>pictex.sty</i> with LaTeX and some other packages that also need
-dimension registers. When this happens, you will see the TeX error
-message:
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-! No room for a new \dimen.
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-There is nothing that can directly be done about this error: you
-can&#8217;t extend the number of available <code>\</code><code>dimen</code> registers without
-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&#8217;s VTeX</a>.
-
-<p/>It&#8217;s actually quite practical (with most modern distributions) to use
-e-TeX&#8217;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&#8217;re in some situation where you can&#8217;t use e-TeX, you need to change
-PicTeX; unfortunately PicTeX&#8217;s author is no longer active in the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
-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 Schrell&#8217;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
-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
-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).
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>etex.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/etex-pkg.zip">macros/latex/contrib/etex-pkg</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/etex-pkg/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/etex-pkg.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>m-pictex.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/context/current/cont-tmf.zip">macros/context/current/cont-tmf.zip</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/context.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>m-pictex.tex</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/context/current/cont-tmf.zip">macros/context/current/cont-tmf.zip</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/context.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>MathsPic</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/mathspic.zip">graphics/mathspic</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/mathspic/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/mathspic.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>pictexwd.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pictex/addon.zip">graphics/pictex/addon</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pictex/addon/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pictexwd.html">catalogue entry</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>
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