[comp.text] Pic / Eqn Question

gt8251a@prism.gatech.EDU (toM o. genesE) (05/23/91)

Greetings:

  Could anyone give me some information regarding Pic?  That is, where can
it be found?  Where can I get documentation on it, etc.?  Or, if there are
any public domain utilities which have similar capabilities as Pic, where
can these be found?

  Secondly, does eqn provide a vector or line integral symbol?  If so, how
is it used?

  Adv|thanx|ance to all who can help.


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rstevens@noao.edu (Rich Stevens) (05/23/91)

>  Could anyone give me some information regarding Pic?  That is, where can
>it be found?  Where can I get documentation on it, etc.?

The best documentation I've seen to date on pic is the 25-page writeup
by Brian Kernighan in the Volume II of the Version 10 manuals (published
by Saunders).  This corresponds to the latest AT&T DWB 3.1 pic, and
documents some features that you wont find in earlier DWB 2.x versions..

>Or, if there are any public domain utilities which have similar
>capabilities as Pic, where can these be found?

The groff package (GNU troff) has a complete pic implementation that
corresponds to the latest DWB version of pic.

	Rich Stevens  (rstevens@noao.edu)