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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/curve2e/README.txt b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/curve2e/README.txt index 84e7fecffbb..1d74851d13a 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/curve2e/README.txt +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/curve2e/README.txt @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ %% %% curve2e.dtx (with options: `readme') %% -%% Copyright (C) 2005--2019 Claudio Beccari all rights reserved. +%% Copyright (C) 2005--2020 Claudio Beccari all rights reserved. %% License information appended %% File README.txt for package curve2e - [2019-12-06 v.2.0.7 Extension package for pict2e] + [2020-01-05 v.2.0.8 Extension package for pict2e] @@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ ltxdoc.cfg curve2e.dtx is the documented TeX source file of file curve2e.sty; you get curve2e.sty, curve2e.pdf, and curve2e-v161.sty by running pdflatex on curve2e.dtx. The ltxdoc.cfg file customises the way the documentation -file is typeset. This specific .cfg file is part of the ltxdoc package functionality and it is supposed to be configured for each specifica other bundle. +file is typeset. This specific .cfg file is part of the ltxdoc package +functionality and it is supposed to be configured for each specific +other bundle. README.txt, this file, contains general information. @@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ slope, to draw arcs and curved vectors, to draw curves where just the interpolating nodes are specified together with the slopes at the nodes; closed paths of any shape can be filled with color; all coordinates are treated as ordered pairs, i.e. 'complex numbers'; -coordinates may be expressed also in polar form. +coordinates may be expressed also in polar form. Coordinates may be specified with macros, so that editing any drawing is rendered much simpler: any point specified with a macro is modified only once in the macro definition. Some of these features have been incorporated in the 2011 version of pict2e; therefore this package avoids any modification to the original pict2e commands. @@ -49,9 +51,12 @@ pict2e commands. Curve2e now accepts polar coordinates in addition to the usual cartesian ones; several macros have been upgraded and a new macro for tracing cubic Bezier splines with their control nodes specified in polar form is -available. The same applies to quadratic Bezier splines. The \multiput +available. The same applies to quadratic Bezier splines. The multiput command has been completely modified in a backwards compatible way, as -to manipulate the increment components in a configurable way. +to manipulate the increment components in a configurable way. A new +xmultiput command has been defined that is more configurable than the +original one; both \multiput and \xmultiput are backwards compatible with +the original picture environment definition. This version solves a conflict with package eso-pic. @@ -71,10 +76,10 @@ have an older or a basic/incomplete installation of the TeX system, such L3 functions might not be available. This is why this package checks the presence of the developer interface; in case such interface is not available it falls back to the previous version -renamed curve2e-v161.sty, which is part of this bundle, and that must -not be renamed in any way. The compatibility mentioned above implies -that the user macros remain the same, but their implementation requires -the L3 interface. +renamed curve2e-v161.sty, which is part of this bundle; this order +package name must not be modified in any way. The compatibility mentioned +above implies that the user macros remain the same, but their +implementation requires the L3 interface. The package has the LPPL status of author maintained. |