[pstricks] [Pgf-users] what can PSTricks do that PGF/TikZ can't? (and vice versa)

Herbert Voss Herbert.Voss at FU-Berlin.DE
Thu Jul 17 14:45:35 CEST 2008


Johannes Engel schrieb:
> Herbert Voss wrote:
>>> Concerning that topic I can assure you that I like TikZ/pgf much better 
>>> than pstricks for its documentation. To me it appears that the freely 
>>> available PSTricks documentation is in some parts rather outdated. 
>>>     
>> which one?
> Maybe "outdated" is the wrong word. What I like better about TikZ/pgf is 
> the fact that there exists one(!) compendium for the whole thing, 

interesting ...

/graphics/pgf/base/doc/generic/pgf/images/pgfmanual-mindmap-1.pdf
/graphics/pgf/base/doc/generic/pgf/images/pgfmanual-mindmap-2.pdf
/graphics/pgf/base/doc/generic/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf
/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgf-soroban/pgf-soroban-doc.pdf
/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots/doc/context/pgfplots/pgfplotsexample.pdf
/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots/doc/latex/pgfplots/pgfplots.pdf
/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots/doc/latex/pgfplots/pgfplotsexample.pdf
/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots/doc/latex/pgfplots/pgfplotstable.pdf
/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-inet/tikz-inet-doc.pdf
/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pgfopts/pgfopts-manual.pdf
/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pgfopts/pgfopts.pdf


> whereas I have to look at a lot of different places to find the docs for 
> pstricks, since it is not one package but a whole collection. Apart from 
> your book I have not yet found a document giving a overview over the 
> whole lot of packages, something like a frame for all those docs.
> But of course I see that this is due to the nature of PSTricks. :)

totally nonsense

Herbert



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