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@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
-PSTricks 2006
+PSTricks 1993--2007
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
PSTricks is the work of Timothy van Zandt <tvz@econ.insead.fr>
-
PSTricks 97 is edited by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>
-and Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
-
+ 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 2005/2006 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>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
For more informations go to http://tug.org/PSTricks _and_ read the
@@ -23,7 +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 by Herbert Voss <voss@PSTricks.de>
+COPYRIGHT 2006--2007 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
@@ -93,7 +90,10 @@ along paths) doesn't work with the "textures" driver.
Textures's users must also look at the page kindly maintained
by Michael Sharpe: http://math.ucsd.edu/~msharpe/pst-textures.html
- d - If you use another driver than these four ones, you have to adapt
+ e - If you use the "xdvipdfmx" DVI to PDF converter (for XeTeX),
+you have to rename generic/xdvipdfmx.con to generic/pstricks.con.
+
+ f - If you use another driver than these four ones, you have to adapt
a pstricks.con file for it, if the one for "dvips" doesn't work for it.
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,
@@ -121,25 +121,17 @@ pstricks.sty loads by default the xcolor package, but there is an option
"noxcolor". If you are a LaTeX user then load _always_ first the
pstricks.sty package.
- b - LaTeX users must also take care that the `pstricks.sty' package is
-required in place of the `pstricks.tex' one if the `graphics' or `graphicx'
-package is also loaded.
-
- c - Don't try to load the `color' or `xcolor' package if you use
+ b - Don't try to load the `color' or `xcolor' package if you use
`pstricks.sty' or `pst-all' (it is already loaded in the correct order).
- d - If needed, preferably load the `graphics' / `graphicx' package
+ c - If needed, preferably load the `graphics' / `graphicx' package
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).
- e - If you load `graphics' / `graphicx' before PSTricks without
-loading pstricks.sty, you must use the PSTricks syntax of \scalebox
-in all cases (not the one described in the `grfguide' document).
-
- f - We have rename some package files for consistency. But the reference
-documentation in obsolete/doc subdirectory still refer to the old names.
-So, take care that `pst2eps' is now `pst-eps', `charpath' is now `pst-char',
+ 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'.
@@ -155,35 +147,16 @@ 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...)
-dvips : PostScript header files
-generic : TeX generic sources
-latex : LaTeX wrappers
-obsolete: documentation and sources for the version 0.93a and the
- additional old Beta material
4.2 - PSTricks core files
The generic subdirectory contain the core files of PSTricks (and the latex
-subdirectory contain the corresponding wrapper files). By alphabetic order:
-
-multido : loop facility for Generic TeX -> /macros/generic/multido
-pst-3d : 3d projections
-pst-char: stroking and filling character paths
-pst-coil: coils and zigzags
-pst-eps : conversion of PSTricks graphics to EPS files
-pst-fill: fillings and tilings
-pst-grad: gradients
-pst-node: nodes and node connections
-pst-plot: plots
-pst-text: texts along a path
-pst-tree: trees
-
-In addition, there is a LaTeX package `pst-all' in the latex subdirectory,
-which loads all of the PSTricks components, plus `pstricks.sty', in one go
-(`pstricks' require also a color.cfg file defined; make sure you do _not_ load
-the `color' package by itself). The only reason for _not_ using this is that
-it uses extra memory for facilities you might not need.
+subdirectory contain the corresponding wrapper files).
+pstricks.sty - The LaTeX file
+pstricks.tex - The TeX file
+pstricks.con - The configuration file
+pstricks.pro - The dvips header file
5 - Documentation
-------------
@@ -208,7 +181,7 @@ 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 Denis Girou, on http://www.tug.org/applications/PSTricks with various
+by Herbert Voss, 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.
@@ -216,4 +189,4 @@ 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 July 01, 2006)
+Denis Girou, Sebastian Rahtz and Herbert Voss (updated 2007-03-11)