graphics-pln

Graphics code for non-LaTeX users.

This directory provides a small wrapper file such that users of formats based on plain TeX may make use of some of the parts of the standard LaTeX distribution.

These files are NOT supported by the LaTeX3 project, and any problems with them should NOT be reported to the LaTeX bugs system.

Problems should be reported as issues at https://github.com/davidcarlisle/graphics-pln/issues

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Copyright 1995-2024 David Carlisle

All the files in this directory may be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License distributed from CTAN archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either version 1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This directory contains

• README.md This file.

• exmplpic.tex A plain TeX document using LaTeX' picture mode': a portable means of producing simple diagrams.

• exmplgrf.tex A plain TeX document using the LaTeX graphicx package, for rotating and scaling text, and include PostScript and other graphics formats. (This will include the file a.ps available in the LaTeX graphics distribution.)

• exmplcol.tex A plain TeX document using the LaTeX color package, for producing colour.

• exmplpfg.tex A plain TeX document using the contributed LaTeX psfrag package, for including PostScript documents, while replacing certain text strings with TeX typeset replacements. This uses the example.eps figure from the psfrag 3.0 distribution. Requires etex.

• miniltx.tex A small miniLaTeX' that defines fakes or otherwise hacks sufficient bits of LaTeX internals so that the packages can load.

• picture.tex The user interface to the picture environment. \input picture Normally a plain-style syntax is used, viz

    \picture(100,100)
    ....
    \endpicture
    

  However if the command `\LaTeXbegin` is issued, then a LaTeX
  syntax of
  \begin{picture}(100,100)
  ....
  \end{picture}
  May be used. this may be prefered if the picture is being copied
  from a LaTeX document, or if it is produced automatically from
  a drawing tool such as xfig or texcad.

• autopict.sty This is a frozen copy of a file that used to be distributed with LaTeX but is no longer needed in that context, it is basically the source of LaTeX Picture mode from LaTeX in 2014. The original use for this package was to build a latex format in which some environments such as picture and tabbing were not defined by default, to save space if working with TeX on a machine with 640K memory.

• graphicx.tex The user interface to the graphicx package. \input graphicx See the documentation in grfguide.ps in the LaTeX graphics distribution. This file sets the driver to be dvips, pdftex or luatex. If you use another driver, define \Gin@driver before inputting the file.

• color.tex The user interface to the color package. \input color See the documentation in grfguide.ps in the LaTeX graphics distribution. This file sets the driver to be dvips, pdftex or luatex. If you use another driver, define \Gin@driver before inputting the file.

• psfrag.tex The user interface to the psfrag package. \input psfrag See the documentation in pfgguide.tex in the psfrag distribution, and the example document pfgexmpl.tex included here.