[Distribution] Updates of September 98

[Denis Girou]

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  The following files have been recently dowloaded on CTAN to update the
distribution:

 -rw-r--r--     280/150        8649 Sep 16 20:00 CHANGES
 -rw-r--r--     280/150        2087 Sep  9 19:54 doc/README
 -rw-r--r--     280/150        6514 Sep  9 19:18 doc/test-pst.tex
 -rw-r--r--     280/150        2176 Sep 16 20:00 contrib/README
 -rw-r--r--     280/150         571 Jul 23 11:06 contrib/misc/README
 -rw-r--r--     280/150        2734 Jul 23 10:58 contrib/misc/pst-key.tex
 -rw-r--r--     280/150         699 Sep 15 21:54 contrib/pst-blur/README
 -rw-r--r--     280/150       14376 Sep 16 18:54 contrib/pst-blur/pst-blur.dtx
 -rw-r--r--     280/150         770 Sep 10 11:59 contrib/pst-blur/pst-blur.ins
 -rw-r--r--     280/150         916 Sep 15 19:27 contrib/pst-ghsb/README
 -rw-r--r--     280/150         763 Sep 16 20:00 contrib/pst-gr3d/README
 -rw-r--r--     280/150       27641 Sep 16 19:48 contrib/pst-gr3d/pst-gr3d.dtx
 -rw-r--r--     280/150        1125 Sep 16 19:37 contrib/pst-gr3d/pst-gr3d.ins
 -rw-r--r--     280/150         705 Sep 15 21:55 contrib/pst-slpe/README
 -rw-r--r--     280/150       30850 Sep 15 14:43 contrib/pst-slpe/pst-slpe.dtx
 -rw-r--r--     280/150         770 Sep 10 11:59 contrib/pst-slpe/pst-slpe.ins

  It mainly concern:

     - a correction in pst-key.tex to correct a bug found in July by
Michael Vulis <support at micropress-inc.com> (thanks to him)

     - a modification of test-pst.tex to insert explicit page breaks
(as discussed here last week, this heavily reduce the amount of memory
required, so must be run without changes even by installations with small
memories)

     - my contribution for 3d grids that I package recently (it was on the Web
pages since March, so nothing new)

     - a contribution from Martin Giese for "blurred" shadows

     - another contribution from Martin Giese which heavily extend
the "gradient" mode


  Note that the three new contributions use the `doc' package to be able to
manage simultaneously both code and documentation in the way of "literate
programming" (it was in fact also the primitive way used by the PSTricks
distributions from Timothy). I am definitely convainced by the superiority of
this system, but nevertheless "plain" TeX users must notice that LaTeX is only 
required to generate the documentation. The packages themselves generate a
"plain" TeX file with a LaTeX wrapper, so can be used with different TeX
formats.

  Finally, I would like to thank Martin Giese for his good work and to have
made all the required but painful efforts to package it and make it easily
usable by everybody.

D.G.

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