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- EEPIC is a set of TeX macros for LaTeX. It includes several extensions to EPIC
- and LaTeX picture drawing environement and provides several new commands.
-
- ------------------------------
- Additions to Version 1.00
- o new commands to draw filled cirlces and ellipsis.
- o new command to set line thickness to any width.
- o bugs in EEPICEMU.sty are fixed.
- ------------------------------
-
- Extensions to LaTeX and EPIC include:
- o drawing of lines in any slopes
- o drawing of circles in any radii
- o drawing of dotted lines and dash lines in a much faster way and much less
- TeX memory
-
- It also provides new commands for:
- o drawing ellipsis
- o drawing arcs
- o drawing of splines
-
- Please read the manual for details.
-
- ************IMPORTANT**************
-
- The standard EEPIC style file generates tpic \special. If your printer does not
- support those specials, you have to either change "eepic" in the
- \documentstyle command to "eepicemu" or rename "eepicemu.sty" to "eepic.sty"
- before formating the manual. "eepicemu.sty" is the emulation package of EEPIC
- using EPIC and it does not generate any \special command. However, \arc
- command is not supported in the emulation package. Hence, you will get 3 error
- messages if you use "eepicemu" to format the manual. Furthermore, the
- emulation package uses a lot more TeX memory. If your TeX run out of memory
- during the formating of the manual, you can insert \clearpage between example
- 3 and example 4 to put them on different pages.
-
- EPIC is an TeX macro package for use with LaTeX. It is written by
- Sunil Podar, Dept of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY 11794.
- The "epic.sty" file is include in the distribution so that you can format the
- manual. I strongly recommend everyone using EEPIC should get a full package of
- EPIC. Information on getting EPIC and printer drivers that support tpic
- specials are given at the end of this file.
-
- [ I tried to contact the author to get permission to include "epic.sty" ]
- [ in EEPIC distribution but I did not get any reply. I hope this is okay ]
-
- ********MISC***********
- o Any line beginning with "%%" in eepic.sty may be removed for efficiency
-
-
- *******E-MAIL Address*******
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-
-
- --Conrad Kwok
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- First, thanks to all who have responsed to my question. It seems
- to me that not many DVI drivers currently support tpic
- specials but a number of people are planning to support tpic
- specials in their new DVI drivers. Here is the summary.
-
- 1) "iptex" written by Chris Torek --- This is for imagen printer.
- It is included in the UNIX TeX distribution. It is also
- available for anonymous ftp from a.cs.uiuc.edu in
- pub/TeX/iptex.tar
-
- 2) "texx" written by Dirk Grunwald --- DVI previewers for X11.
- It supports most of the tpic specials but not all. It is part of
- the iptex package. See 1) above.
-
- 3) "texsun" written by Dirk Grunwald --- DVI previewers for
- Sunview window system. It supports most of the tpic specials. It
- is also part of the iptex package. See 1) above.
-
- 4) "dvips" written by Tomas Rokicki and tpic special codes are
- added by Dorab Patel --- A DVI to Postscript translator. It is
- available for anonymous ftp from labrea.stanford.edu.
-
- 5) L. Michael Gray in the University of New Hamsphire said he has
- modified dln01 (for DEC LN01S), dvi2ps and xdvi (for X10.4) to
- handle tpic specials. He may be reached at lmg%unhcs@RELAY.CS.NET.
-
- 6) "dviis" previewers for Integrated Solutions. I think it is
- available on june.cs.washington.edu.
-
- 7) DVI previewers written by Randy Buckland for VMS vaxstations.
- The program is written in Ada. The executable is available for
- anonymous ftp from argon.rti.org [128.109.139.64].
-
- 8) There are a number of DVI drivers in science.utah.edu but I
- don't know which one support tpic specials and who one don't.
-
- 9) Another "dvips" is available from a.cs.uiuc.edu in
- pub/TeX/dvips.tar.Z
-
- 10) quicspool that come with the distribution also supports tpic
- specials.
-
-
- Some of the information here come at second hand. Correct me if
- any of these are wrong. If you know any DVI drivers that support
- tpic specials but they are not list here. Please send me a
- message so that I can keep this list up-to-date.
-
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- Additions to Version 1.1
- o new commands to do area fill for circles, ellipses, paths and
- arcs.
- o allows user to define the area fill pattern. It may not work on
- all dvi drivers but it is known to work using iptex.
- ================================================
-
- Thanks.
-
- --Conrad
-