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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/readme.pst b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/readme.pst new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8d489f677e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/readme.pst @@ -0,0 +1,204 @@ + --------------- + | PSTricks 97 | + --------------- + + + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +PSTricks is the work of Timothy van Zandt <tvz@nwu.edu> + +PSTricks 97 is edited by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr> + and Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +1 - Copyright + --------- + +COPYRIGHT 1993, 1994, 1999 by Timothy Van Zandt, tvz@nwu.edu. + +This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms +of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN +archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt. + +2 - Introduction + ------------ + +This package is a re-release of PSTricks, incorporating all of the +beta releases and bug fixes made up to March 1997. It is *not* +intended as a full new release of PSTricks, but as a consolidation and +cleaned distribution. Because Timothy van Zandt does not currently have +enough time to work on PSTricks, he gave permission for Denis Girou +and Sebastian Rahtz to produce this interim solution. + +No new features have been added in PST97, except the release of the +small pst-fill package for filling (tiling) arbitrary regions and the +various evolving contributions, but we have merged in all the bug fixes +and beta addons which Timothy produced. + +We have renamed some of the files that make up PSTricks, for consistency. + + +3 - Installation + ------------ + +3.1 - (La)TeX files + + a - You have to move all the files from the "generic" subdirectory +to a directory part of your TEXINPUTS environment variable, or to add it +in your TEXINPUTS list of paths. + + b - If you are a LaTeX user (and not only a plain TeX one), you have +to do the same thing for the "latex" subdirectory, which define LaTeX +wrappers for all the PSTricks files. + +3.2 - PostScript header files + + a - If you use the "dvips" DVI to PostScript converter, you have +to move all the files from the "dvips" subdirectory to a directory part +of your DVIPSHEADERS environment variable, or to add it in your DVIPSHEADERS +list of paths. + + b - If you use the Y&Y's "dvipsone" DVI to PostScript converter, +you have to rename generic/dvipsone.con to generic/pstricks.con and to move +all the files of the "dvips" subdirectory to the TeX input folder. + + c - If you use the MicroPress "VTeX" DVI to PostScript converter, +you have to rename generic/vtex.con to generic/pstricks.con and to move +all the files of the "dvips" subdirectory to the TeX input folder. + + d - If you use the "textures" (version 1.7 or 1.8) DVI to PostScript +converter (for Macintosh), you should proceed as follows: + * create a new folder PSTricks97 (for instance) as a subfolder in +Textures' TeX inputs folder, + * copy the "generic", "dvips", "latex" and "contrib" subfolders +from the "pst97" folder to the newly created "PSTricks97" folder, + * open the "generic" folder and remove the file pstricks.con, +then rename the file textures.con to pstricks.con, + * open the "dvips" folder and change the following line in the file +pstricks.pro (courtesy Michael J. Sharpe <msharpe@euclid.ucsd.edu>): +/STV { SDict begin normalscale end STP } def +by +/STV { Mag 72.27 72 div mul dup neg scale STP } def + It was also reported that the `pst-text' package (to put text +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 +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, +hopping that somebody on the list has the same configuration than you... + +3.3 - Test of the installation + +The file doc/test-pst.tex allow you to test all your installation and the +various components of PSTricks. It is the concatenation of most of the +examples of the PSTricks chapter of "The LaTeX Graphics Companion". +You must take care (mainly if you are "normally" a user of plain TeX only, +that it require LaTeX and some packages of it distribution (namely `calc', +`ifthen' and `graphicx'). It also require the `random' and `subfigure' +packages, which can be found on CTAN or the TeXLive cdrom - see the README +file of the doc subdirectory). + +3.4 - Known pitfalls + + a - To use the standard `color' package (which is available both +for plain TeX and LaTeX) with PSTricks, you must load the `pstcol' extra +package written by David Carlisle, which interface the two packages, +loading them in the right order, and overriding some small parts of PSTricks +to allow it to use the `color' package system for specifying color. +We strongly recommend that you use the `color' package today. + + b - Don't try to load the `color' package if you use `pst-all' +(it is already loaded in the correct order). + + 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). + + d - If you load `graphics' / `graphicx' before PSTricks, you must use +the PSTricks syntax of \scalebox in all cases (not the one described +in the `grfguide' document). + + e - 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', +`gradient' is now `pst-grad', `textpath' is now `pst-text' and `pstree' is +now `pst-tree'. + + +4 - Contents + -------- + +4.1 - Subdirectories + +The distribution contain the following subdirectories: + +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 (in fact independant of PSTricks) +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 `pstcol', in one go +(`pstcol' 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. + + +5 - Documentation + ------------- + +There is NOT a complete up to date _reference_ documentation for PSTricks 97. +You must still refer to the reference documentation of the version 0.93a and +the additional old Beta material, available in the obsolete/doc subdirectory +(it was put in the "obsolete" subdirectory to clearly show that it is not up +to date nor supported by actual mainteners). Take care to notice what has +changed in additional old Beta documents (betadoc?.ps files) comparing to the +ones for 0.93a version (pst-usr?.ps files). + +Denis Girou maintain a list of known errors in both version 0.93a and +additional old Beta documentations, in obsolete/doc/pst-doc.err + +A large chapter of "The LaTeX Graphics Companion", by Goossens, Rahtz and +Mittelbach, Addison Wesley 1997, is dedicated to PSTricks, and this +currently forms the only systematic description of the integration of +the basic PSTricks and the beta additions of 1993. The source of all examples +from that book is also on CTAN/info/lgc and most of them in the doc/lgc +subdirectory of the PST97 distribution. + +There is also a supporting set of Web pages, actually maintained +by Denis Girou, on http://www.tug.org/applications/PSTricks with various +pointers and examples classified by categories. + +And there is also a mailing list devoted to discussions on PSTricks usage. +The informations to subscribe to this list and to consult the archives can +be found on the Web page. + +-- +Denis Girou and Sebastian Rahtz (updated May 5, 1999) |