beck@gefion.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck) (06/08/89)
Release 4 of the TransFig package for translating Fig code included
five translation programs, named fig2{[la]tex,[e]pic,ps}. In
subrelease 4a, I have combined these into a single program called fig2dev,
which has five "drivers" which correspond to those five programs.
Fig2dev takes almost the same command line arguments as the old translation
programs. Thus, "fig2pic <args>" should be the same as "fig2dev -Lpic <args>".
The main reason for this reorganization is that Conrad Kwok, author of
fig2epic and fig2pic, returned to his native Hong Kong and asked me to
support those programs. I couldn't see supporting five programs with so
much common structure, and so combined them. An added benefit is a reduction
in total code size.
Anyone interested in donating a translation to TransFig should now look at
adding a driver to fig2dev rather than adding a new fig2* program.
The driver interface is very simple. TransFig is available via anonymous FTP
from svax.cs.cornell.edu, or by mail from the Clarkson archive server.
Micah Beck
beck@cs.cornell.edu
Cornell CS Department