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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-PSTricks 1993--2007
+PSTricks 1992 -- 2007
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ PSTricks 97 is edited by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>
and Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
PSTricks 2004 is edited by Herbert Voss <voss@PSTricks.de>
and Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk@ptb.de>
-PSTricks 2005--07 is edited by Herbert Voss <voss@PSTricks.de>
+PSTricks 2005-07 is edited by Herbert Voss <voss@PSTricks.de>
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For more informations go to http://tug.org/PSTricks _and_ read the
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ news articles in the doc directory!
COPYRIGHT 1993, 1994, 2000 by Timothy Van Zandt, <tvz@econ.insead.fr>.
COPYRIGHT 2004, 2005 by Herbert Voss <voss@PSTricks.de> and
Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk@ptb.de>.
-COPYRIGHT 2006--2007 by Herbert Voss <voss@PSTricks.de>
+COPYRIGHT 2006-07 by Herbert Voss <voss@PSTricks.de>
This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ cleaned distribution. Because Timothy van Zandt does not currently have
enough time to work on PSTricks, he gave permission for Denis Girou,
Sebastian Rahtz and Herbert Voss to produce this interim solution.
-Some new features have been added in the 2004 version, except the release
+Some new features have been added in the 2007 version, except the release
of the small pst-fill package for filling (tiling) arbitrary regions and the
various evolving contributions, but we have merged in all the bug fixes
and beta addons which Timothy produced.
@@ -99,18 +99,7 @@ You can also look at the instructions of the old obsolete/src/pstricks.con
file. And if nothing work, ask for help on the PSTricks mailing list,
hopping that somebody on the list has the same configuration than you...
-3.3 - Test of the installation
-
-The file doc/test-pst.tex allow you to test all your installation and the
-various components of PSTricks. It is the concatenation of most of the
-examples of the PSTricks chapter of "The LaTeX Graphics Companion".
-You must take care (mainly if you are "normally" a user of plain TeX only,
-that it require LaTeX and some packages of it distribution (namely `calc',
-`ifthen' and `graphicx'). It also require the `random' and `subfigure'
-packages, which can be found on CTAN or the TeXLive cdrom - see the README
-file of the doc subdirectory).
-
-3.4 - Known pitfalls
+3.3 - Known pitfalls
a - To use the standard `color' or `xcolor' package with PSTricks, you
must load the `pstricks.sty' package, which interface the two packages,
@@ -129,11 +118,6 @@ after PSTricks, and in this case use the `graphics' syntax of \scalebox
(not the one described in the PSTricks documentation). pstricks.sty
redefines this macro so that both can be used (see doc).
- d - We have rename some package files for consistency. But the reference
-documentation in obsolete/pstricks/doc subdirectory still refer to the old names.
-So, take care that `pst2eps' is now `pst-eps', `charpath' is now `pst-text',
-`gradient' is now `pst-grad', `textpath' is now `pst-text' and `pstree' is
-now `pst-tree'.
4 - Contents
@@ -143,10 +127,8 @@ now `pst-tree'.
The distribution contain the following subdirectories:
+base : the core pstricks files
contrib : various contributions
-doc : documentations (up to date ones - the obsolete/doc subdirectory
- contain the reference documentation for the version 0.93a and
- the additional old Beta material, which is still necessary to use...)
4.2 - PSTricks core files
@@ -172,16 +154,16 @@ ones for 0.93a version (pst-usr?.ps files).
Denis Girou maintain a list of known errors in both version 0.93a and
additional old Beta documentations, in obsolete/doc/pst-doc.err
-A large chapter of "The LaTeX Graphics Companion", by Goossens, Rahtz and
-Mittelbach, Addison Wesley 1997, is dedicated to PSTricks, and this
+A large chapter of "The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2nd ed.", by Goossens, Mittelbach,
+Rahtz, Roegel and Voß, Addison Wesley 2007, is dedicated to PSTricks, and this
currently forms the only systematic description of the integration of
the basic PSTricks and the beta additions of 1993. The source of all examples
from that book is also on CTAN/info/lgc and most of them in the doc/lgc
subdirectory of the PST97 distribution. The second edition of this book
has no more a chapter of PSTricks.
-There is also a supporting set of Web pages, actually maintained
-by Herbert Voss, on http://www.tug.org/PSTricks with various
+There is also a supporting set of Web pages on
+http://www.tug.org/PSTricks with various
pointers and examples classified by categories.
And there is also a mailing list devoted to discussions on PSTricks usage.
@@ -189,4 +171,4 @@ The informations to subscribe to this list and to consult the archives can
be found on the Web page.
--
-Denis Girou, Sebastian Rahtz and Herbert Voss (updated 2007-03-11)
+Denis Girou, Sebastian Rahtz and Herbert Voss (updated April 11, 2007)