README - describes this release of GraphTeX: Release 1.0beta $Id: README,v 1.2 1994/02/10 00:58:23 pliam Exp $ GraphTeX 1.0.1beta, a program for typesetting graphs Copyright (C) 1994 John Pliam This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ------------- Introduction: ------------- GraphTeX is actually a Perl library (graphtex.pl) along with a preprocessor (gt) which can be used to generate TeXdraw commands producing graphs and related diagrams inside a TeX document. A graph can be ``typeset'' by writing a .gt source file which resembles a matrix environment. -------------- Documentation: -------------- Both the entire source for making the manual, as well as copy of the postscript manual, manual1.0beta.ps, come with the distribution. To read more about GraphTeX, simply print the postscript manual. (The "make doc" target of the Makefile is intended to show the user the full dependencies inherent in GraphTeX. ------------- Installation: ------------- In order for GraphTeX to work, you need to have the following packages installed: TeX, Perl, TeXdraw, and dvips (any .dvi to .ps program which respects \special for postscript insertion). If you can write to the system-wide "bin" and "lib" directories and wish to install Graph-TeX right away, attend to definitions PERLLIB, PERLEXEC and BINDER in Makefile, and type make install If you only wish to test Graph-TeX, attend to the PERLEXEC definition in Makefile and type make test-install This assumes that your system supports the "magic number" mechanism for script programs, i.e. first lines of the form #!{path} (if not, you'll have to hack your own). A good way to test things is to rebuild the manual by typing make Note that because Graph-TeX relies on TeXdraw, the documents you create must include the TeXdraw macros, for example. \input texdraw for TeX \documentstyle[texdraw]{book} for LaTeX ----------- Known Bugs: ----------- 1. Space delimits commands within a cell, so math mode expressions aren't aloud to have any space inside them. (Try {} or something.)