beck@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck) (03/31/89)
Release 4 of the the TransFig package is now available for anonymous FTP and by mail from the Rice and Clarkson archive servers. This release contains the latest bug fixes, as well as one new program. TransFig now translates Fig code to PiCTeX, (E)EPIC, LaTeX picture env., PostScript, and PIC. Conrad Kwok (of EEPIC fame) has contributed fig2pic, a version of f2p which supports the TFX extension to Fig code. What this means is that pic/troff users can now make full use of Fig-FS, an enhanced version of Fig which uses the TFX extension. In other Fig-related news, the next patch level (1.6) of the GnuTeX numerical plotting program will support output in Fig code. GnuTeX is a version of the Gnuplot plotting program. This means that plots produced by GnuTeX can be edited with Fig and translated using TransFig. For more information, contact David Kotz (dfk@cs.duke.edu), the author of GnuTeX. TransFig and Fig-FS are in the directory ~ftp/pub/fig on svax.cs.cornell.edu. For information about using the Clarkson archive server send a mail message containing the command "help" to archive-server@sun.coe.clarkson.edu. GnuTeX is available via anonymous FTP from duke.cs.duke.edu. Micah Beck beck@cs.cornell.edu Department of Computer Science Cornell University