TransFig Release 4

[Micah Beck]

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 at 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 at sun.coe.clarkson.edu.

GnuTeX is available via anonymous FTP from duke.cs.duke.edu.

Micah Beck				beck at cs.cornell.edu
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University