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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label usepictex</title>
</head><body>
-<h3>Why can&rsquo;t I load PicTeX?</h3>
+<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&rsquo;t too badly affected by its
+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&rsquo;s fixed-size arrays &mdash; notably the array of 256 &lsquo;dimension&rsquo;
-registers. This is a particular problem when you&rsquo;re using
+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:
@@ -18,24 +18,24 @@ message:
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
There is nothing that can directly be done about this error: you
-can&rsquo;t extend the number of available <code>\</code><code>dimen</code> registers without
+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&rsquo;s VTeX</a>.
+ does <a href="FAQ-commercial.html">MicroPress Inc&#8217;s VTeX</a>.
-<p/>It&rsquo;s actually quite practical (with most modern distributions) to use
-e-TeX&rsquo;s extended register set: use package <i>etex</i> (which
+<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&rsquo;re in some situation where you can&rsquo;t use e-TeX, you need to change
-PicTeX; unfortunately PicTeX&rsquo;s author is no longer active in the
+<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+PicTeX; unfortunately PicTeX&#8217;s author is no longer active in the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&rsquo;s <i>pictexwd</i> and related
+<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
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ program for other systems (including Windows, nowadays).
<dt><tt><i>m-pictex.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/context/current/cont-tmf.zip">macros/context/current/cont-tmf.zip</a>
<dt><tt><i>m-pictex.tex</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/context/current/cont-tmf.zip">macros/context/current/cont-tmf.zip</a>
<dt><tt><i>MathsPic</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/mathspic.zip">graphics/mathspic</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/mathspic/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>pictexwd.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pictex/addon.zip">graphics/pictex/addon</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pictex/addon/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>pictexwd.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pictex/addon.zip">graphics/pictex/addon</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pictex/addon/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pictexwd.html">catalogue entry</a>
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<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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