Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description
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Name: mfpic
Author: Thomas Leathrum <leathrum@griggs.dartmouth.edu> and Geoffrey Tobin <ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: 10/11/1993
Last changed in archive: 1993/11/10
Version: 0.25
Archive-path: graphics/mfpic
Description: 
 Description: 
 A set of TeX and Metafont macros that essentially draw
 pictures in a TeX document using Metafont. Support for
 unix, MS-DOS, and 4DOS. Patches in the new "mfpic.tex":
 improved LaTeX compatibility (lamfpic.tex is redundant),
 fractional x and y scales, correct restoration of the `at'
 character's catcode, sharp and percent characters written
 literally in the MF file, \label options tested, MF char
 codes must be 0 to 255, some quantities localised.  The
 documentation is updated, and a new version of `Metafont
 for Beginners' is included.  In MFpic, each picture comes
 out as a single Metafont character; the TeX macros
 actually write the Metafont file for you, so there's no
 need to learn Metafont (although you do have to be able
 to run Metafont); and the TeX macros are things like
 \axes, \arrow, \circle, \curve, etc., similar in nature
 (but nowhere near the scope) of PiC-TeX. The advantages
 of this technique: significantly faster than PiC-TeX
 (especially on curves), totally printer-independent
 (unlike \special's). 

