CTAN Update: pict2e
* New user-level macros \Vector and \polyvector (similar to \Line and \polyline)
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/pict2e The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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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 |