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From: kjell@saturn.ucsc.edu (Kjell Post)
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Subject: pic for TeX-users
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Date: 26 Mar 91 19:25:27 GMT
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(Introductory note: pic is a language for textually describing pictures and 
was originally written by Brian Kernighan at AT&T for troff.  Tpic is a port
to the TeX environment and is not part of the NeXT distribution.)

If you're doing typesetting with TeX and miss tpic, you should definitely 
get gpic, which is included in the groff distribution, written by 
James Clark and available from e.g. prep.ai.mit.edu.

The groff package is written in C++ (actually g++) so one of the first
things I did was to get libg++-1.39 from the same place.  Bill Burdick,
who was kind enough to answer some questions about its installation, will
soon post instructions on how to get it up and running with cc++.

Since I'm a TeX user I only bothered with gpic and didn't compile the
complete groff package.  If there is enough demand I'd be happy to 
put a tar-file on an ftp-site with the binary and the gpic manual.
Gpic has some additional features over tpic so you might want to get it,
even though you have access to tpic.

While TeXview doesn't grok the \special-commands generated by gpic,
dvips does, and Preview can be used to examine the PostScript file.

BTW, where are the man pages for cc++ ???

--Kjell
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