[texhax] Floatrow

[Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)]

Hmmm, well, looking at fr-sample.tex,
I see the following :

	\input {BlackCat.picture}

Searching for BlackCat.picture in \TeX\Live\2008
fails to find anything, so I cannot really
advise what (if anything) you should use to
view BlackCat.picture (and its friends) if
indeed you have such a file ...

However, on searching the web, I can find
a BlackCat.picture at :

	http://blogninja.com/doc/texlive-doc/latex/floatrow/

and /it/ contains TeX !  It reads as follows :

> \ifx\pspicture\undefined \begingroup \def\mycircle#1#2#3#4{% \qbezier[#4](0,#1)(#3,#1)(#2,#2)\qbezier[#4](#2,#2)(#1,#3)(#1,0) \qbezier[#4](0,-#1)(#3,-#1)(#2,-#2)\qbezier[#4](#2,-#2)(#1,-#3)(#1,0)} \def\Mycircle#1#2#3#4{\mycircle{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4} \qbezier[#4](0,#1)(-#3,#1)(-#2,#2)\qbezier[#4](-#2,#2)(-#1,#3)(-#1,0) \qbezier[#4](0,-#1)(-#3,-#1)(-#2,-#2)\qbezier[#4](-#2,-#2)(-#1,-#3)(-#1,0)} \begin{picture}(61,103)(0,-15) \put(20,72){\Mycircle{12}{8.485}{4.969}{30}} \put(20,46){\Mycircle{14}{9.898}{5.797}{32}} \put(20,16){\Mycircle{16}{11.313}{6.625}{35}} \put(54,0){ \qbezier[120](0,-8)(-24,-8)(-29.5,0.5) \qbezier[160](0,-14)(-32,-14)(-38.5,0.5)} \put(54,-11){\mycircle{3}{2.121}{1.242}{6}} \put(32,72){\line(0,1){16}}\put(8,72){\line(0,1){16}} \put(32,88){\qbezier[20](0,0)(-2.877,-2.877)(-5.754,-5.754)} \put(8,88){\qbezier[20](0,0)(2.877,-2.877)(5.754,-5.754)} \end{picture}% \endgroup \else \begin{pspicture}(0,0)(61,103) \psset{linewidth=.125,linestyle=none,fillstyle=solid,fill
color=black} \psellipse(20,85)(14,14) \psellipse(20,61)(17,16) \psellipse(20,32)(22.8,20) \pspolygon(6,102.25)(6,85)(15,92) \pspolygon(34,102.25)(34,85)(25,92) \psbezier[linewidth=5.125,linestyle=solid,linecolor=black,fillstyle=none](16,19.5)(16,7.35)(25,2.5)(56,2.5) \psbezier[linewidth=5.125,linestyle=solid,linecolor=black,fillstyle=none](20,19.5)(20,7.35)(25,2.5)(56,2.5) \psellipse(56,2.5)(5,2.5) \end{pspicture}% \fi \endinput

and therefore looks as if it is using LaTeX commands
to /draw/ a picture rather than being a picture per se.

Let me know if this helps, and in the meantime I will
copy the TeX-Live team to see if I can find out where
BlackCat.Picture has gone from TeX Live 2008.

Philip TAYLOR
--------
Jean-Guy Murray wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Search on the Internet for information regarding "floatrow" which could 
> allow me to deal with my problem of Long Caption resulted in the following:
>  
> Index of /texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/floatrow
>  
> However, I am unable to open frsample04 to frsample12 as well as 
> pictures.tex
>  
> The error message is that the  file picture cannot be found.
>  
> Am I in need of a particular package to open the picture files. I tried 
> to open them with GSView but it does not work.
>  
> Thanks for your help.
>  
> Jean-Guy Murray