achhabra@uceng.UC.EDU (atul k chhabra) (03/14/89)
This is to announce the release of the program tek2eepic, the
Tektronix to EEPIC converter. The distribution can be obtained
by ftp'ing the file tek2eepic.tar.Z from the directory pub on
sun.soe.clarkson.edu [128.153.12.3].
Tek2eepic is based largely on tek2ps (the Tektronix to Postscript
converter) of Ed Moy, UC Berkely. Thanks to Mike Liebman
(mjl@cheme1.che.utexas.edu) for having mailed me the tek2ps
package. The EEPIC code generated by tek2eepic can be included
in LaTeX documents. EEPIC is an extension to the LaTeX picture
drawing environment. It was written by Conrad Kwok of UC Davis.
Thus, tek2eepic provides a way of including tekronix plots in
LaTeX documents that are intended for printing on non-Postscript
laser printers (I know it works for sure on Imagen 8/300 with
ImPress page description language, using the driver "iptex" ftp'd
from pub/TeX on a.cs.uiuc.edu [10.3.0.37] or [192.5.69.1]).
There is no README file in the distribution. I have tried to
incorporate most of the installation instructions, and
information about EEPIC and how to get it, in the man file
tek2eepic.l.
Tek2eepic could do with some polishing, but I have no time for
that at present. The only major shortcoming of tek2eepic is that
characters are not supported (blank spaces are printed instead).
This is not a problem with plotting routines that actually plot
the characters using the Tektronix plot primitives rather than
printing them using fonts (one plotting package that plots the
characters is "crc"). However, with some effort, it should be
possible to modify tek2eepic to use standard LaTeX fonts. Any
volunteers?
Good Luck. And please inform me of any enhancements to tek2eepic.
Atul
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Atul Chhabra, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, ML 030,
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030.
Phone: (513)556-4766 INTERNET: achhabra@ucesp1.ece.uc.edu
OR achhabra@uceng.uc.edu
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