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-prerex, version 6.4.2: Macros for prerequisite charts, with associated
+prerex, version 6.5.1: Macros for prerequisite charts, with associated
editor and viewer applications.
This package consists of
@@ -13,10 +13,9 @@ This package consists of
vprerex ("visual prerex") a GUI and previewer for prerex.
-The implementation of prerex.sty is built on pgf, so that it may
-be used equally happily with latex or pdflatex; prerex is written in C
-and vprerex is written in C++ using the Qt-4 toolkit and the poppler
-library.
+The implementation of prerex.sty is built on pgf, so that it may be
+used equally happily with latex or pdflatex; prerex is written in C and
+vprerex is written in C++ using the Qt-4 and poppler libraries.
See chart.{pdf,html} for a small example of a prerequisite chart and
real-life examples at
@@ -68,14 +67,18 @@ of LaTeX source files. It supports add, remove, cut-and-paste, and edit
operations on course boxes and arrows, and vertical or horizontal shifts
of the whole diagram or selected sets of course boxes. When a course box
is moved, the arrows into and out of it automatically follow. To install
-on any Unix-like system, including OS-X and Cygwin on Windows:
+on most Unix-like platforms, including OS-X and Cygwin on Windows:
- tar zxvf prerex-6.4.2.tar.gz
- cd prerex-6.4.2
+ tar zxvf prerex-6.5.1.tar.gz
+ cd prerex-6.5.1
./configure [--prefix=$HOME]
make
make install (as root if necessary)
+The prerex editor will also build on the MinGW platform on Windows if
+the readline package in the gnuwin32.sourceforge.net repository has been
+installed.
+
The effects of editing operations may be observed in any PDF viewer.
The vprerex (visual prerex) application included in the prerex suite
is a GUI and viewer for the prerex editor. It may be used just as a