# graphics-pln

## Graphics code for non-LaTeX users.

This directory provides a small wrapper file such that users of
formats based on plain TeX may make use of some of the parts of the
standard LaTeX distribution.

These files are *NOT* supported by the LaTeX3 project, and any
problems with them should *NOT* be reported to the LaTeX bugs system.

Problems should be reported as issues at
https://github.com/davidcarlisle/graphics-pln/issues


David Carlisle  
1995/01/29  
1996/11/13  
2016/08/17  
2017/06/01  
2018/01/16  
2020/03/02  
2020/10/30  
2021/11/15  
2022/06/13  
2022/09/27  
2022/09/28  
2022/12/02  
2023/11/09

Copyright 1995-2023 David Carlisle

   All the files in this directory may be redistributed and/or modified
   under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License distributed from
   CTAN archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
   version 1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 



This directory contains

- README.md  
  This file.

- exmplpic.tex  
      A plain TeX document using LaTeX' `picture mode': a portable
      means of producing simple diagrams.

- exmplgrf.tex  
      A plain TeX document using the LaTeX graphicx package, for
      rotating and scaling text, and include PostScript and other
      graphics formats. (This will include the file a.ps available
      in the LaTeX graphics distribution.)

- exmplcol.tex  
      A plain TeX document using the LaTeX color package, for
      producing colour.

- exmplpfg.tex  
      A plain TeX document using the contributed LaTeX psfrag package,
      for including PostScript documents, while replacing certain text
      strings with TeX typeset replacements. This uses the example.eps
      figure from the psfrag 3.0 distribution.

- miniltx.tex  
      A small `miniLaTeX' that defines fakes or otherwise hacks
      sufficient bits of LaTeX internals so that the packages can load.

- picture.tex  
      The user interface to the picture environment.  
      `\input picture`  
      Normally a plain-style syntax is used, viz
      ```
      \picture(100,100)
      ....
      \endpicture
      ```

      However if the command `\LaTeXbegin` is issued, then a LaTeX
      syntax of
      \begin{picture}(100,100)
      ....
      \end{picture}
      May be used. this may be prefered if the picture is being copied
      from a LaTeX document, or if it is produced automatically from
      a drawing tool such as xfig or texcad.

- autopict.sty  
      This is a frozen copy of a file that used to be distributed with
      LaTeX but is no longer needed in that context, it is basically
      the source of LaTeX Picture mode from LaTeX in 2014. The
      original use for this package was to build a latex format in
      which some environments such as picture and tabbing were not
      defined by default, to save space if working with TeX on a
      machine with 640K memory.


- graphicx.tex  
      The user interface to the graphicx package.  
      `\input graphicx`  
      See the documentation in grfguide.ps in the LaTeX graphics
      distribution.
      This file sets the driver to be dvips, pdftex or luatex.
      If you use another driver, define `\Gin@driver` before inputting the file.

- color.tex  
      The user interface to the color package.  
      `\input color`  
      See the documentation in grfguide.ps in the LaTeX graphics
      distribution. 
      This file sets the driver to be dvips, pdftex or luatex.
      If you use another driver, define `\Gin@driver` before inputting the file.
     

- psfrag.tex  
      The user interface to the psfrag package.  
      `\input psfrag`  
      See the documentation in pfgguide.tex in the psfrag distribution,
      and the example document pfgexmpl.tex included here.