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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texdraw/texdraw_1.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texdraw/texdraw_1.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0865cde28b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texdraw/texdraw_1.html @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<!-- Created by texi2html 1.56k from texdraw.texi on 10 March 2004 --> + +<TITLE>TeXdraw - 1. Introduction</TITLE> +</HEAD> +<BODY> +Go to the first, previous, <A HREF="texdraw_2.html">next</A>, <A HREF="texdraw_11.html">last</A> section, <A HREF="texdraw_toc.html">table of contents</A>. +<P><HR><P> + + +<H1><A NAME="SEC1" HREF="texdraw_toc.html#TOC1">1. Introduction</A></H1> + +<P> +TeX is a powerful typesetting program which allows for complex text +layouts but by itself lacks a general graphics capability. However, +when coupled with an appropriate printer driver program, external +graphics files can be inserted into the printed document. In this mode, +TeX is instructed to leave space for a drawing. The drawing is +inserted by the printer driver program. The TeXdraw macros described +here generate the external graphics file from within TeX and generate +the instructions to the the print driver program to position the +graphics at the appropriate position on the page. + + +<P> +TeXdraw consists of a set of TeX macros that create line drawings +and other figures. The drawing primitives include solid lines, +patterned lines, Bezier curves, circles and arrows. Other commands +allow for the filling of a region with a gray level. The drawing +commands generate PostScript code. This limits TeXdraw to systems +which use PostScript printers. TeXdraw also provides commands to +position TeX text, including mathematics, on the drawing. The final +drawing, with text and graphics, can be positioned on the page like any +other TeX box. + + +<P> +<A NAME="IDX1"></A> +<A NAME="IDX2"></A> +<A NAME="IDX3"></A> +The basic TeXdraw macros for TeX use the <CODE>\special</CODE> syntax +recognized by the printer driver program <CODE>dvips</CODE>. However, when +invoked as a LaTeX2e package, the TeXdraw macros can be used with +any of the PostScript printer driver programs supported by the standard +<CODE>graphics</CODE> package for LaTeX2e. + + +<P> +The basic TeXdraw macros provide only simple drawing commands. +However, TeXdraw provides a drawing segment environment which allows +parameter changes and coordinate scaling changes to be kept local to the +drawing segment. This facility, together with TeX's macro +capabilities allows one to modularize drawing units and extend +TeXdraw by building more complex graphics entities from simpler +elements. + + + +<UL> +<LI><A HREF="texdraw_1.html#SEC2">Distribution</A> +</UL> + + + +<H2><A NAME="SEC2" HREF="texdraw_toc.html#TOC2">1.1 Distribution information</A></H2> +<P> +<A NAME="IDX4"></A> + + +<P> +The TeXdraw routines are provided free of charge without warranty of +any kind. Note that the TeXdraw routines are copyrighted. They may +be distributed freely provided that the recipients also acquire the +right to distribute them freely. The notices to this effect must be +preserved when the source files are distributed. + + +<P><HR><P> +Go to the first, previous, <A HREF="texdraw_2.html">next</A>, <A HREF="texdraw_11.html">last</A> section, <A HREF="texdraw_toc.html">table of contents</A>. +</BODY> +</HTML> |