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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks/README index d026ea1ea63..3e4bc5bd408 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks/README @@ -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) |