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!
