[texhax] Graphics with plain teX

[Uwe Lück]

At 01:09 04.08.08, Karl Berry wrote:
>     I've been searching for a way to typeset graphics in plain teX and
>
>In addition

let me mention PiCTeX, just because I have dealt with it this year.
I'm attaching some "meta"-documentation for it.
But please don't consider this a recommendation!

Rather look at the UK FAQ:

     http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?keyword=drawing

especially

     http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=drawing

Note that we haven't been sure here whether you want to
import or to draw graphics.

HTH -- Uwe. 
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                    DOCUMENTATION for PiCTeX

1. The macro file pictex.tex (or pictexwd.tex) contains a sober yet 
comprehensive documentation. (Something similar holds for contributions 
from other authors.)

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. 

5. Another GERMAN reference list, a quite RECENT one, is Uwe Siart's PDF 
on the web at

      http://www.siart.de/typografie/pictex-referenz.pdf

6. An early command summary has been Angus Duggan's PDF on the web at 

      http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/pictex/summary/pictexsum.pdf

7. You may like short descriptions of pictex including HINTS concerning 
basic problems with PiCTeX 

-- in the TeX Catalogue: 

      ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pictex.html

or in the TUG.org package information: 

      http://tug.ctan.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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[This file by Uwe Lueck (the wrong author for an overview) 2008/05/07; 
add-ons/edits invited!]