Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!emory!mephisto!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Figures in (La)TeX (was: What is PiCTeX) Message-ID: Date: 16 Aug 90 09:27:04 GMT References: <3923@cica.cica.indiana.edu> <1194@carol.fwi.uva.nl> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 25 In-reply-to: smagt@fwi.uva.nl's message of 14 Aug 90 12:24:41 GMT In article <1194@carol.fwi.uva.nl> smagt@fwi.uva.nl (Patrick van der Smagt) writes: 3. Not for free, need a DWB license from AT&T to get it. I never used it. (this refers to tpic). there is now a public domain, better, replacement for tpic - the pic which forms part of the GNU groff package, written by James Clark. pluses: - compatible with current AT&T pic (tpic isnt) - generates TeX output (pic -t) with tpic \specials minuses - you need a driver which understands tpic \specials, like dvitops or dvips - its written in C++ (assumes gnu c++, but may work with AT&T) but its an excellent product, and I recommend people who like pic but use TeX to go straight out and get a copy 4. Set of very powerful macros but even the smallest picture causes TeX to run out of memory. Manual available from TUG for $30 ($35 including (this is pictex). it can be enhanced slightly with macros which replace some of the complicated stuff with calls to tpic \specials -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)