-pic version 3 is currently under development through
collaboration between the author and Ross Moore. Partial funding for
this project has been provided by a Macquarie University Research
Grant (MURG), by the Australian Research Council (ARC), and through a
research agreement with the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
We invite all users of -pic to participate in this venture with
suggestions for adding features, eliminating misfeatures, and
anything else that might improve the usefulness of -pic. Please
contact the author for further information or if you want to be kept
up to date with the development.
This does mean, however, that from time to time features may turn out
to be redundant because they can be implemented in a better way.
This is currently the case for the following features of version 2.6
and earlier versions; in each case a fix is proposed:
- Automatic `shortening' of arrow tails by ??c![|«] break was a bug
and has been `fixed' so it does not work any more. "Fix": Put a
|||<| break before it as described in section ??[arrows.tips].
- The version 2.6 ??c![*] position operator is not available. "Fix":
Use the |:| and |::| operators (described in detail in the reference
manual [#!R94:XY-picRM!#]).
- Using
t1|;| t2| : (| x|,| y|)| as the target of an arrow command does
not work. "Fix": Enclose it in braces, , write
|| t1|;| t2|:(| x|,| y|)|.
- The older ??c![], ??c![], and ??c![] commands are not
defined. "Fix": Use |>| (or ||) with variants and
rotation.
- The obsolete notation where an argument in braces to || and the
others was automatically taken to be a `tail' is not supported.
"Fix": Use the supported |||<|... notation.
Finally note that sometimes the spacing with version is
slightly different from that of earlier versions which had some
spacing bugs.
Please report all other things that do not work the same in
version 2.6 and to the author.