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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xypic/TRAILER b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xypic/TRAILER new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0910c672a83 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xypic/TRAILER @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +-*-text-*- $Id: TRAILER,v 3.7 1999/02/16 15:12:50 krisrose Exp $ + +======================================================================= + ANNOUNCING the Xy-pic version 3.7 DIAGRAM TYPESETTING PACKAGE +======================================================================= + +This is to announce a release of my diagram typesetting package Xy-pic. + +With version 3.7 we explicitly grant permission to use the unmodified +Xy-pic fonts and specials in distributed documents. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + GENERAL +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Xy-pic is a package for typesetting a variety of graphs and diagrams +with TeX. Xy-pic works with most formats (including LaTeX, AMS-LaTeX, +AMS-TeX, and plain TeX), in particular Xy-pic is provided as a LaTeX2e +`supported package' (following the `CTAN LaTeX2e bundle' standard). + +Further specifics of the package are in the distribution README file. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + NEWS +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The primary purpose of release 3.7 is the granting of special permission +to copy the Xy-pic fonts and graphic specials inside documents, for +example in DVI, PostScript, and PDF files. This has no practical +significance except making current (reasonable) practice explicitly +legal. + +Release 3.7 furthermore fixes a few bugs in release 3.6 and adds a few +features: a "smart turning path" feature and an extension with macro +expansion in kernel expressions and polygon shapes by George C. Necula, +and the beginnings of an emulation of LaTeX picture mode proposed by +Paul Burchard and Bill Richter. + +Special thanks to George Necula for the bug fixes and impressive +extensions, to Bill Richter for extending Paul Burchard's pb-diagram to +use Xy-pic as a backend and for contributing the `picture' feature, to +Berthold Horn of Y&Y Inc. for releasing the copyright on their +PostScript fonts, and to Pieter Donche and Marcelo Cunha dos Santos for +the bug reports. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + AVAILABILITY +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Xy-pic can be retrieved through the World Wide Web Xy-pic `home page': + + URL: http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/Xy-pic.html + +as well as by anonymous ftp from + + CTAN: macros/generic/diagrams/xypic + +Check the README file in each location for specifics, in particular +check that you have reached a version 3.7 copy (some archives take a +while to mirror the latest files)! + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + HISTORY & CREDITS +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The first public release (version 1.40) of Xy-pic was created by +Kristoffer H. Rose, DIKU, U of Copenhagen (now ENS-Lyon, France) and +distributed via Usenet on December 19, 1991. This quickly became +version 2 of which version 2.6 was the stable for sevarl years. + +The thorough rewrite that became version 3 is a continued +collaboration with Ross Moore, Macquarie U, Sydney, initiated through +a visit to Macquarie (Jan-May 1994 supported by the Australian +Research Council, Macquarie University, and using donated DEC +equipment). However, full backwards compatibility is maintained +(except for the unavoidable but fully documented obscure cases). + +Xy-pic is Copyright (c) 1991-1998 by Kristoffer H. Rose and 1994-1998 +by Ross Moore under GNU COPYLEFT (GPL) which means that you can use +the package for any purpose but if you provide the macros or any code +derived from them to a third party then you are obliged to include the +entire Xy-pic package (full details in the file COPYING). The +PostScript fonts are additionally Copyright (c) 1997 Y&Y Inc. The +FONTCOPYING file details the special permissions to distribute fonts +without the full requirements of the GPL. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + + This is the end of the announcement. Enjoy Xy-pic! + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- |