From 974049fc5bfe6f05001c1e9ea136448852679a0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Berry Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 22:58:30 +0000 Subject: new latex package xpicture (2jan13) git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@28704 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751 --- Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xpicture/README | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 117 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xpicture/README (limited to 'Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xpicture/README') diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xpicture/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xpicture/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6a7705ed90e --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xpicture/README @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ + + The xpicture package, version 1.2a + (Several extensions of the "picture" standard environment, + including graphs of functions and parametric curves) + Robert Fuster, 2012/12/17 + + +1. Licence +---------- +This material is subject to the LaTeX Project Public License. + +See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html +for the details of that license. + + +2. About this package +--------------------- + +The xpicture package introduces several new graphical instructions, +and some enriched versions of standard instructions used inside the picture +environment that, among other utilities, will provide the possibility of +using different reference systems and a fine control the precise position +where the objects are placed in your drawing. + +But the most interesting feature of this package is the ability to draw high +quality curves such that conic sections, graphs of elementary functions and +parametric curves, from LaTeX and using the typical LaTeX syntax. + +The new instructions defined by this package can be classified as follows: + + -- Reference systems and coordinates: + + - Declaration and use of different reference systems, + with Cartesian or polar coordinates. + - Instructions to show Cartesian or polar reference systems. + + -- An alternative to the picture environment, compatible with + the new reference systems. + + -- Alternative instructions or extensions of the standard picture + commands and those defined by the packages pict2e and curve2e: + + - Enriched versions of marks \put and \multiput, providing an + adequate control of the precise position in which objects + are composed. + - Instructions for drawing straight segments, vectors + (in any direction and using any reference system), polygonal + lines, and regular and arbitrary polygons. + + -- Regular curves: + + - Instructions for drawing conic sections (circles, ellipses, + hyperbolas and parabolas) and arcs of these curves. + - Instructions to graph functions and parametrically defined + curves. + + +This package requires the "calculator" and "calculus" packages. You can +download these packages from CTAN: + + /macros/latex/contrib/calculator + +Packages "pict2e", "curve2e" and "xcolor" are also needed. These packages are +included in major TeX distributions. + + +3. Installation and documentation +--------------------------------- + +After uncompressing "xpicture.zip" you will have the following files: + + -- "README". This file. + -- "xpicture.dtx". The source file. + -- "xpicture-doc.pdf". The compiled "xpicture" user manual. + -- "xpicture-doc.tex". The user manual source file. + -- "xpicture.tds.zip". Ready to use tds-structures zip file. + +Then, you can install the package in two ways: + + a) Unpacking the zip file xpicture.tds.zip into your local texmf tree + and updating the file database, or + + b) By compiling the source file "xpicture.dtx" in the following sequence + + >> pdflatex xpicture.dtx + >> pdflatex xpicture.dtx + >> makeindex -s gind.ist -o xpicture.ind xpicture.idx + >> pdflatex xpicture.dtx + + Then, several files will be generated: + + "xpicture.sty" (the package). + Move this file where LaTeX search for (typically, in a local + texmf tree, at tex/latex/xpicture/) and refresh the file database. + + "xpicture.pdf" (documented source and reference manual). + + "xpicture.cfgxmpl" (costumizable local configuration file). + + Recall that the user manual is not "xpicture.pdf", but + "xpicture-doc.pdf". If you re-compile this file, + many small files, named "xpictureNN.tex" are generated. + These files contain the source code of all examples included + in the manual. + You can store or discard this files. + +Please, visit the "xpicture" homepage at + + http://www.upv.es/~rfuster/xpicture + +--------------------------------------------------- +Robert Fuster +rfuster@mat.upv.es + +Universitat Polit\`ecnica de Val\`encia, 2012/12/17 +--------------------------------------------------- + -- cgit v1.2.3