CTAN Update: pict2e
This new version has a driver file for the upcoming LuaTeX 0.87 (suggested by David Carlisle) and some other marginal corrections. Tests with a new LuaLaTeX are welcome.
The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pict2e The package's files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e/ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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 |