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PSTricks
We chose the PSTricks packages for our drawings because we could draw nice, vector-based line drawings easily. By producing simple line drawings we can reduce the printing cost of the book (no colour) and students are often more confused by complicated colour drawings/photographs in explanations.
Examples
There is a learning curve to using PSTricks for the first time. There are manuals and examples available on the web and they are much better than we could do on one web-page.
There are many examples in the books already. For graphs check the algebra and trigonometry chapters. For drawings look through the physics chapters that are there already.
Manuals and Examples
Getting Up and Running
Windows running MikTex
Download a minimal version of pstricks (~100K)
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/generic.zip
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/latex.zip
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/dvips.zip
and simply extract these files into [the MikTex search folder] [update the LaTeX list of installed packages] Thats it! You can check your install by downloading
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/doc.zip
and compiling the test-pst.tex file.
pst-vue3d, pst-3dplot, pst-circ:
Download the adons (~250K)
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-vue3d.zip
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot.zip
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ.zip
and simply extract these files into [the MikTex search folder]
[update the LaTeX list of installed packages]
Thats it! You should now be able to compile the FHSST book!
UNIX-like operating systems using tetex
Download a minimal version of pstricks (~100K)
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/generic.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/latex.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/dvips.tar.gz
and extract these files
tar xfz generic.tar.gz
tar xfz latex.tar.gz
tar xfz dvips.tar.gz
Then you must install the needed files by typing (this will install pstricks in /usr/share/texmf, but many users may prefer to change the install location)
install -m 755 -d /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks
install -m 755 -d /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks
install -m 755 -d /usr/share/texmf/dvips/pstricks
install -m 644 generic/* /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks
install -m 644 latex/* /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks
install -m 644 dvips/* /usr/share/texmf/dvips/pstricks
update the LaTeX list of installed packages
texhash
Thats it! You can check your install by downloading
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/doc.tar.gz
and compiling the test-pst.tex file.
pst-vue3d, pst-3dplot, pst-circ:
Download the addons (~250K)
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-vue3d.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ.tar.gz
and extract these files
tar xfz pst-vue3d.tar.gz
tar xfz pst-3dplot.tar.gz
tar xfz pst-circ.tar.gz
Then you must install the needed files by typing
install -m 644 pst-vue3d/pst-vue3d.sty /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks
install -m 644 pst-vue3d/pst-vue3d.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks
install -m 644 pst-vue3d/3D.pro /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks
install -m 644 pst-3dplot/pst-3dplot.pro /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks
install -m 644 pst-3dplot/pst-3dplot.sty /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks
install -m 644 pst-3dplot/pst-3dplot.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks
install -m 644 pst-circ/pst-circ.sty /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks
install -m 644 pst-circ/pst-circ.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks
install -m 644 pst-circ/pst-circ.pro /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pstricks
update the LaTeX list of installed packages
texhash
Thats it! You should now be able to compile the FHSST book!
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