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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: pic-like tool under LaTeX
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Date: 9 Jul 90 19:40:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: rekers@ooievaar.cwi.nl's message of 9 Jul 90 14:50:18 GMT

>>>>> On 9 Jul 90 14:50:18 GMT, rekers@ooievaar.cwi.nl (Jan Rekers) said:
JR> I am converting from troff to tex and feel need for something like pic to
JR> use under LaTeX.
JR> Does there exists such a tool, and how can I obtain it?
--

It used to be that you needed to get an AT&T version of 'pic' and
apply a special set of patches, called ``the tpic patches.''

Happily, those days are no more, and you can now use ``gpic,'' the Gnu
version of pic that already supports TeX. You can get this from
prep.ai.mit.edu from u2/emacs/groff-0.3.tar.Z (get the patch file too)
as part of the Groff (gnu version of ditroff).

I think gpic supports full pic V2 files and some extensions as well.

Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder	(grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu)
						(grunwald@boulder.colorado.edu)