CTAN Update: pict2e
This version allows etex length expressions (e.g.\circle{\textwidth-5cm}) for all image mode coordinates in the same way as the upcoming LaTeX version 2020-10-01. The old way of using the package `picture' is no longer necessary.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/pict2e The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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pict2e – New implementation of picture commands
This package was described in the 2nd edition of ‘LaTeX: A Document Preparation System’, but the LaTeX project team declined to produce the package. For a long time, LaTeX included a ‘pict2e package’ that merely produced an apologetic error message.
The new package extends the existing LaTeX picture environment, using the familiar technique (cf. the graphics and color packages) of driver files (at present, drivers for dvips, pdfTeX, LuaTeX, XeTeX, VTeX, dvipdfm, and dvipdfmx are available). The package documentation has a fair number of examples of use, showing where things are improved by comparison with the LaTeX picture environment.
| Package | pict2e |
| Version | 0.4b 2020-09-30 |
| Copyright | 2003–2020 Rolf Niepraschk, Hubert Gaesslein, Josef Tkadlec |
| Maintainer | Hubert Gäßlein Rolf Niepraschk Josef Tkadlec |