            PSTricks changes since announcement of April 18, 1997
                               (May 3, 1999)
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pstricks:
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  * 97/05/21 Add the VERSIONS file

  * 97/05/30 Add this CHANGES file


pstricks/generic:
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  * 97/04/16 pst-plot.tex (97 patch 1): Problem in the \pst@hlabels macro
(reported by Akos Valentinyi <akos@indigo.econ.soton.ac.uk>)

  * 97/04/25 pstricks.con (97 patch 1): Correction of pstricks.con to work
with "old" LaTeX - typically distribution of 1994
(reported by Philippe Esperet <esperet@marie.polytechnique.fr>)

  * 97/04/28 pstricks.tex (97 patch 1): The \psbezier macro doesn't work
correctly inside \pscustom
(reported by Ralf Hetzel <R.Hetzel@physik.tu-dresden.de>)

  * 97/04/28 pst-grad.tex (97 patch 1): Work only in LaTeX and not in
plain TeX, due to missing @ catcode change
(reported by Ralf Hetzel <R.Hetzel@physik.tu-dresden.de>)

  * 97/05/05 pst-eps.tex (97 patch 1): \TeXtoEPS ... \endTeXtoEPS
doesn't work. The PostScript header files were not loaded, as LaTeX 2e
require now a specific mechanism
(reported by Greg Byrd <gbyrd@Umunhum.Stanford.edu>)

  * 97/05/12 pstricks.tex (97 patch 2): The \translate macro doesn't work
correctly
(reported by Hilmar Schlegel <100.143869@germany.net>)

  * 97/05/14 pst-coil.tex (97 patch 1): The \nczigzag and \nccoil macros
doesn't work, even if those from pst-node.tex were correct
(reported by Tomer Kol <tkol@psl-palm.technion.ac.il>)

  * 97/05/14 pst-tree.tex (97 patch 1): The levelsep=*dim parameter
doesn't work correctly
(reported by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>)

  * 97/07/11 pstricks.tex (97 patch 3): dotscale parameter inefficient
with \psdot and \psdots macros
(reported by Ivan Maio <maio@polito.it>)

  * 97/07/22 pst-node.tex (97 patch 1): `dot' node is undefined
in the psmatrix environment, but documented
(reported by Jean-Francois Mertens <jfm@core.ucl.ac.be>)

  * 97/07/30 pst-node.tex (97 patch 2): C node type doesn't work
in the psmatrix environment
(reported by Kostas Oikonomou <ko@surya.ho.att.com>)

  * 97/08/08 pstricks.tex (97 patch 4): Suppress a spurious blank in
the definition of \psk@dotangle in the \psset@dotangle macro definition
(reported by Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se>)

  * 97/09/02 pst-node.tex (97 patch 3): Add a \leavevmode command
for \dianode, \ovalnode and \trinode which were missing
(reported by Wolfgang May <may@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>)

  * 97/09/24 pst-tree.tex (97 patch 2): The \pstree@horizlevelsepadjust
doesn't require an argument - definition was falsely copied from
\pstree@vertlevelsepadjust, which require one
(reported by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>)

  * 97/09/24 pst-tree.tex (97 patch 3): The levelsep=*dim parameter
give wrong result for treemode=R, because all leaves were positioned on the top
(reported by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>)

  * 97/09/26 pst-node.tex (97 patch 4): Correct a bug which made
that \thput and \tvput didn't work (it generate a PostScript error)
(reported by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>)

  * 97/10/14 pstricks.bug (97 patch 2) : Add description of the problem of
the change the way the curves are drawn when arrows are required and the
problem of the \savedata macro that doesn't work inside another macro.

  * 97/10/17 pstricks.tex (97 patch 5): dotscale parameter doesn't
work correctly in some cases. I remove the change of patch 3 and introduce
another change.
(reported by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>)

  * 97/10/27 pstricks.tex (97 patch 6): The (coor1|coor2) special
coordinates produce an error, due to a bug in 0.93a version, which correction
in pstricks.bug was not reported in PST 97.
(reported by Ivan Maio <maio@polito.it>)

  * 97/10/27 pstricks.tex (97 patch 7): The | and B| dots were not
properly scaled when using the dotsize parameter (and the tbarsize has
no effect, despite what documentation says).
(reported by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>)

  * 97/03/20 pst-fill.tex (97 patch 1): There can be a division by 0 in the
\pst@ManualFillCycle macro.
(reported by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>)

  * 97/12/12 pst-fill.tex (97 patch 2): Extensive modifications to
improve the "automatic" mode, when the "tiling" one (added by me) is selected.
(by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>)

  * 98/01/07 pstricks.tex (97 patch 8): The \movepath macro doesn't
work, due to a typo.
(reported by Jin-Hwan Cho <chofchof@math.kaist.ac.kr>)

  * 98/01/07 pstricks.tex (97 patch 9): The \scale macro doesn't work,
due to a bug correction from the 0.93 pstricks.bug file not reported in
PSTricks 97.
(reported by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>)

  * 98/03/19 pst-node.tex (97 patch 5): The \nccoil and \nczigzag macros
are drawn in the wrong direction, from the ending to the starting point.
So the arrows, when defined, appear exchanged.
(reported by Wolfgang May <may@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>)

  * 98/03/19 pst-coil.tex (97 patch 2): Same problem than above.

  * 98/04/28 pst-node.tex (97 patch 6): The refpoint parameter of the \rnode
macro is not used if it is specified.
(reported by Pierre Basso <Pierre.Basso@lim.univ-mrs.fr>)

  * 98/07/03 pst-char.tex (97 patch 1): In the \pscharpath macro, the
PostScript code is not reset after it inclusion, which cause problem when
this macro is used inside another one.
(reported by Martin Giese <giese@ira.uka.de>)

  * 98/09/23 pst-node.tex (97 patch 7): There are two typos in validation
tests, which avoid to print an error message for wrong values of tpos.
(reported by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>)

  * 98/11/26 pst-char.tex (97 patch 2): In the \pscharpath@ii macro, the
\begin@ClosedObj macro execute the \solid@star macro, but as the star
convention has another meaning for \pscharpath and \pscharclip, it can execute 
wrong code inside \solid@star.
(reported by To Thanh Binh <binh@atlantis.ET.Uni-Magdeburg.De>)

  * 99/03/11 pst-char.tex (97 patch 3): A spurious blank was introduced in the
\pscharpath@ii macro by the patch 1 correction.
(reported by Stanislav Brabec <utx@k332.feld.cvut.cz>)

  * 98/11/27 pst-node.tex (97 patch 8): The \multispan "plain" macro is broken
by a change made in PSTricks 97 for LaTeX 2e compatibility. And in any case
the \psspan macro of the "psmatrix" environment doesn't work because an
undefined \iterate macro is required.
(reported by Stanislav Brabec <utx@k332.feld.cvut.cz> and
Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>)

  * 99/03/24 pstricks.tex (97 patch 10): The * convention doesn't work
in the \uput* macro, due to a broken definition in the code of pst-beta.tex
used in PSTricks 97.
(reported by Bob Howlett <bobh@maths.usyd.edu.au>)

  * 99/04/14 pstricks.tex (97 patch 9): The \ncLine doesn't position
correctly it content, due to an erroneous order of the used coordinates 
in the code of pst-beta.tex used in PSTricks 97.
(reported by Frank Mueller <meckccef@sp.zrz.tu-berlin.de>)


pstricks/latex:
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  * 97/05/28 pst-all.sty: remove a comment since there are no dependancies
between pst-node.tex and pst-coil.tex

  * 98/07/02 pst-all.sty: add the "tiling" option for `pst-fill' as default


pstricks/dvips:
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  * 97/05/09 pst-node.pro (97 patch 1): The \nccircle and \Tcircle
macros of pst-node.tex doesn't work
(reported by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>)

  * 97/11/07 pstricks.pro (97 patch 1): There is a typo in Grid macro
definition which make \psgrid used with griddots to generate a wrong number
of dots if xunit differ from yunit.
(reported by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>)

  * 97/12/12 pstricks.pro (97 patch 2): Hachures change of starting
point according the position of the area hatched, which is a problem for
special cases, where we need to align them in several contiguous regions.
(reported by Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr>)

  * 98/06/01 pstricks.pro (97 patch 3): Corrections in the LineFill and
Triangle macros suggested by Michael Vulis to don't leave unused operands
on the stack, which is essential for some drivers.
(reported by Michael Vulis <support@micropress-inc.com>)

  * 98/06/02 pst-grad.pro (97 patch 1): Correction in the Coil macro
suggested by Michael Vulis to don't leave unused operands on the stack,
which is essential for some drivers.
(reported by Michael Vulis <support@micropress-inc.com>)


pstricks/doc:
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  * 98/07/10 test-pst.tex: Version 1.1: this file require
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} definition as one example (calligramme of
4-5-13) use 8 bits characters.
(reported by Jean-Francois Mertens <jfm@core.ucl.ac.be>)

  * 98/07/10 lgc/4-5-13.inl: Change the values for one verse (adding 1mm on
both left and rigth sides) to allow correct typesetting in T1 encoding
as well as OT1.
(reported by Jean-Francois Mertens <jfm@core.ucl.ac.be>)

  * 98/07/10 test-pst.tex: Version 1.2: change the sizes used by subfigures
4-5-5 and 4-5-6 to take into account the real size used by 4-5-5 after
correction of the bug in pst-key.tex 1.10 (see below).

  * 98/09/09 test-pst.tex: Version 1.3: add explicit page breaks to require
less memory to be compiled (only 180000 bytes now).

  * 99/03/24 pstricks.bug: Version 1.4: document the problem with the
\psspan macro of `pst-node'.


pstricks/obsolete/doc/src:
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  * 97/07/01 tp-test.tex: The tp-test.tex file didn't work (in fact it was not
compatible with LaTeX 2e)
(reported and updated by Steffen Klupsch
<steffen@vlsi.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>)


pstricks/contrib:
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  * 97/05/30 Reorganization using subdirectories

  * 97/05/30 Add the pst-ghsb subdirectory and relative files

  * 98/02/25 Migrate the palette subdirectory in the obsolete one

  * 98/02/25 Add the pst-poly subdirectory and relative files

  * 98/02/25 Add the misc subdirectory and relative files

  * 98/07/23 Version 1.11 of misc/pst-key.tex to correct a bug in the
definition of the \use@par macro.
(reported by Michael Vulis <support@micropress-inc.com>)

  * 98/09/15 declare pst-ghsb as superceded by the pst-slpe package

  * 98/09/15 Add the pst-blur subdirectory and relative files
(from Martin Giese)

  * 98/09/15 Add the pst-slpe subdirectory and relative files
(from Martin Giese)

  * 98/09/16 Add the pst-gr3d subdirectory and relative files
