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fordyce@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (David F. Fordyce) writes:

>On 8 Sep 92 01:50:05 GMT, Mr. Fulford 
>(grf@lambda.ma.adfa.oz.au (Glenn Fulford)) wrote:

. . .

>] What are the options for Plain-TeX? The Pictex option also
>] only seems to produce code suitable for LaTeX. I don't understand
>] exactly what the pstex option does. Can anyone help with this?


>PiCTeX can run under both plain TeX and LaTeX. What i do is :

no, it seems that either fig2dev, latexpicobjs.tex  or PiCTeX itself
are now incompatible with plain TeX.  i have `C Version 3.14t3' of TeX,
PiCTeX Version 1.1, and a fairly recent (but i'm not sure how recent)
fig2dev.

i create a simple picture with xfig, do a `fig2dev -L pictex
picture.fig > picture.tex' to create my pictex file.  then, i make a
simple file (test.tex) like this:

\input latexpicobjs
\input pictex
\input picture
\bye

(btw, i've tried reversing the order of the first two lines, and still
get the same error...)

and this is what i get when i say `tex test':

| This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3
| (test.tex (/home/rmtc/sam/lib/TeX/inputs/latexpicobjs.tex)
| (/home/rmtc/sam/lib/TeX/inputs/pictex.tex) (picture.tex
| ! Undefined control sequence.
| \makebox ->\@ifnextchar 
|                         ({\@makepicbox }{\@ifnextchar [{\@makebox
| }{\mbox }}
| <argument> \makebox 
|                     (0,0)[l]{\tencirc \symbol {'160}}
| \!setputobject ...->\setbox \!putobject =\hbox {#1
|                                                   }\!ht =\ht \!putobject
| \!d...
|  
| \setplotsymbol (#1#2)->\!setputobject {#1}{#2}
|                                                \setbox \!plotsymbol
| =\box \!...
| <argument> ... (0,0)[l]{\tencirc \symbol {'160}}})
|                                                    \setshadesymbol
| ({\thinli...
|  
| \mbox #1->\leavevmode \hbox {#1
|                                }
| l.1054 \endpicture}
|                    
| ? 

. . .

>ok, do the next one in LaTeX :-)

not an option for me, either!  :-)

- sam