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DOCUMENTATION for PiCTeX
1. The macro file pictex.tex (or pictexwd.tex) contains a sober yet
comprehensive documentation.
2. Michael Wichura presented a description in TUGboat 9 (2),
pp. 193-197 (1988), see
http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb09-2/tb21wichura-pictex.pdf
3. Michael Wichura's MANUAL -- today called `PiCTeX and Table Manual'
-- is distributed by PCTeX:
http://www.pctex.com/books.html
4. Other overviews have been presented at least in Helmut Kopka's
GERMAN books on LaTeX extensions in the 1990s. [Lazy, I know.]
5. Another GERMAN reference list, a quite RECENT one, is Uwe Siart's
PDF at
http://www.siart.de/typografie/pictex-referenz.pdf
6. An early command summary has been Angus Duggan's PDF at
http://mirror.ctan.org/info/pictex/summary/pictexsum.pdf
7. Chapter 5 and Appendix E of the documentation for the MathsPIC
package (Perl version)
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/mathspic/perl/mathsPICmanual.pdf
provide a nicely typeset summary of PiCTeX, of some of its commands,
and of files around PiCTeX available from the web; somewhat replacing
the present overview. MathsPIC provides a kind of front-end script
language for PiCTeX.
8. Similarly, Section 9.9 of the real book (also available as an
e-book)
Syropoulos A., Tsolomitis A. and Sofroniou N.: Digital Typography
Using LaTeX. Springer, New York 2003, ISBN 978-0387952178
has 10 pages presenting PiCTeX.
9. You may like short descriptions of PiCTeX including HINTS
concerning basic problems with PiCTeX
-- in the TeX Catalogue:
http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pictex.html
or in the TUG.org package information:
http://ctan.tug.org/pkg/pictex
-- in the UK TeX FAQ:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=usepictex
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=docpictex
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Text by Uwe Lueck (non-expert) 2011/12/23, based on a web search
2008/02/15 and on messages from Dick Nickalls and Apostolos Syropoulos
(authors of MathsPIC, 2008/2011).
Copyright 2008, 2011 Uwe Lueck, http://contact-ednotes.sty.de.vu.
You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file.
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