Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gauss.rutgers.edu!math.rutgers.edu!tara From: tara@math.rutgers.edu (Tara Madhyastha) Newsgroups: ru.qa.tex,comp.text Subject: Re: tex pictures Keywords: LateX TeX Message-ID: Date: 9 Oct 89 21:14:43 GMT References: Distribution: usa Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 38 In article kuplinsk@math.rutgers.edu (Julio Kuplinsky) writes: > > Well, it doesn't work. I'm referring to "Rutgers Tex, Latex and Amstex > Reference, by D. Steiner and T. Madhyastha": > > p. 34: The picture environment in Latex provides ... picture objects ... > Users of plain Tex can get access to these Latex picture objects by > inputting the file latexpicobjs.tex. > > So my plain tex file is: > [...] > > Texing it produces all sorts of error messages. Deleting > \begin/end{picture} doesn't help either. Am I missing something? > Julio. Yes, I'm afraid it isn't that easy! Referring to the same reference, a little further down: "Complete descriptions of all the PiCTeX macros and examples of how to place LaTeX picture objects in a PiCTeX picture are provided in The PiCTeX Manual by Michael Wichurn." You access LaTeX picture objects in TeX by typing \put {picture object} [B1] at xcoord ycoord Complete instructions are given in the PiCTeX manual, which you can get from TUG. (tug@math.ams.com) I recommend that you either use the LaTeX picture environment within an LaTeX document *or* the PiCTeX picture environment within a TeX document (\put 'ing your LaTeX picture inside the PiCTeX picture). Tara Madhyastha -- Tara Madhyastha tara@rutgers.edu