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- Hello Thomas...
-
- For some time I've been working on a LaTeX-style, which replaces the
- graphic-producing picture objects of LaTeX's picture environment
- (line, vector, circle, circle* etc.)
- This new implementation of the picture environment is based on your
- `dvips' TeX-driver for PostScript printers. I thought you might
- distribute it with your dvips, as it only works with this specific
- driver (it uses your \special variants ! " and ps: )
- At the ending of this the entire style is enclosed. A few things
- should be said about compability:
-
- linethickness when changing the linehickness this affects not only
- the horizontal and vertical lines, but also slanted
- ones.
-
- line The restrictions of wich angles you can make lines are
- eliminated.
-
- vector As you may now make vectors at any linethickness I've
- made a new definition of the vectorhead, so that the
- size of vector heads are proportional to the
- linethickness.
-
- circle(*) In default LaTeX circles can be only of certain sizes
- (as they are predefined as graphics). with pspic you
- may make circles at any size.
-
- I see all thiese things as improvements in comparison with the old
- style, but you must off course be aware of them while using this style
- (especially with old documents).
-
- You may specify a grayscale using the \shade operator, wich takes one
- argument, a number from 0-100 setting the percentage of black. The
- \scale operator affects all the graphic producing objects.
-
- I've tested this for some time, and there doesn't seem to be any bad
- bugs. I will apreciate any response.
-
- /Kresten
-
