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From: crimmins@csli.Stanford.EDU (Mark Crimmins)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: What *is* Pictex?
Message-ID: <16639@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 2 Dec 90 18:05:48 GMT
Reply-To: crimmins@csli.stanford.edu (Mark Crimmins)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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There has been a successful concerted effort to remove the Pictex
manual from circulation, in order to protect the interests of Pictex's
author.  I have no problem with that, but it has made if very
difficult to figure out just what Pictex *is*!  It seems to be some
kind of TeX/LaTeX picture environment, but beyond that, what is it?
Is it printer specific (e.g., postscript stuff)?  What does it add to
the capabilities of LaTeX and epic.sty?  Perhaps this sort of
information could be included in Raymond Chen's very helpful
"Supplementary TeX Information".

Thanks for any information,
Mark
crimmins@csli.stanford.edu