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Re: Program structure of Pstricks, what is its basic structure?

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From: R. H. Allen
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:28
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On 24 Feb 2004 09:39:44 +0100, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

>Uh, the programmer documentation for PStricks is pretty much ok.  The
>user level documentation consists of 4 files documenting an earlier
>version of it, and 2 files documenting most of the changes since then.
>
>This state of affairs is indeed somewhat dissatisfactory, and has been
>such for several years.  It is, however, hardly anything you could
>_demand_ from the original author.  While he probably would be the
>first pick for commissioning a manual about it, you need not expect
>that he should be the cheapest one, were he willing to accept the
>assignment.

FWIW, one the current maintainers, Denis Girou, is said to be working on
a revised set of PSTricks docs. I think he's only revising the user
manual, though -- the outdated pstricks.doc will still be the only
documentation of the internals.

alan
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Subject: Re: Program structure of Pstricks, what is its basic structure?
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