DOCUMENTATION for PiCTeX 1. The macro file pictex.tex (or pictexwd.tex) contains a sober yet comprehensive documentation. 2. Michael Wichura presented a description in TUGboat 9 (2), pp. 193-197 (1988), see http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb09-2/tb21wichura-pictex.pdf 3. Michael Wichura's MANUAL -- today called `PiCTeX and Table Manual' -- is distributed by PCTeX: http://www.pctex.com/books.html 4. Other overviews have been presented at least in Helmut Kopka's GERMAN books on LaTeX extensions in the 1990s. [Lazy, I know.] 5. Another GERMAN reference list, a quite RECENT one, is Uwe Siart's PDF at http://www.siart.de/typografie/pictex-referenz.pdf 6. An early command summary has been Angus Duggan's PDF at http://mirror.ctan.org/info/pictex/summary/pictexsum.pdf 7. Chapter 5 and Appendix E of the documentation for the MathsPIC package (Perl version) http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/mathspic/perl/mathsPICmanual.pdf provide a nicely typeset summary of PiCTeX, of some of its commands, and of files around PiCTeX available from the web; somewhat replacing the present overview. MathsPIC provides a kind of front-end script language for PiCTeX. 8. Similarly, Section 9.9 of the real book (also available as an e-book) Syropoulos A., Tsolomitis A. and Sofroniou N.: Digital Typography Using LaTeX. Springer, New York 2003, ISBN 978-0387952178 has 10 pages presenting PiCTeX. 9. You may like short descriptions of PiCTeX including HINTS concerning basic problems with PiCTeX -- in the TeX Catalogue: http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pictex.html or in the TUG.org package information: http://ctan.tug.org/pkg/pictex -- in the UK TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=usepictex http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=docpictex ______________________________________________________________________ Text by Uwe Lueck (non-expert) 2011/12/23, based on a web search 2008/02/15 and on messages from Dick Nickalls and Apostolos Syropoulos (authors of MathsPIC, 2008/2011). Copyright 2008, 2011 Uwe Lueck, http://contact-ednotes.sty.de.vu. You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file.