From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: R. H. Allen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Program structure of Pstricks, what is its basic structure? Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:28:47 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <42414174.0402221953.24c938a6@posting.google.com> <42414174.0402231604.5a4c2a1a@posting.google.com> <42414174.0402240015.47937b1d@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077640667 6927 80.91.224.253 (24 Feb 2004 16:37:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:37:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 17:37:36 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AvfYu-0000DD-00 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:37:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AvfTH-0005AJ-Tb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:31:47 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.usenetserver.com!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:28:47 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.lang.postscript,gnu.emacs.help X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.640 Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: sv3-h3NsS849Pj/eZ/+qHfiw4OgNt3cnEcKmz2xrYMyfQumOYLqSGpviF9Jf6Dlrr471MnaJHZJGDZgqjmo!JxLZPYdjRsnV3Sw6D/J47lG4qCxskhvZrakKN20C1HTUTp0t9LHIkeY//DmRA5T1Gx8= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.text.tex:271510 comp.lang.postscript:76686 gnu.emacs.help:121193 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17144 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17144 On 24 Feb 2004 09:39:44 +0100, David Kastrup 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