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06/111: gnu: Add texlive-pdftricks.


From: guix-commits
Subject: 06/111: gnu: Add texlive-pdftricks.
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 05:04:30 -0400 (EDT)

ngz pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 0dc974fd5b393eacf151a3a9e1f8f9912fab481f
Author: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
AuthorDate: Mon Aug 14 10:07:01 2023 +0200

    gnu: Add texlive-pdftricks.
    
    * gnu/packages/tex.scm (texlive-pdftricks): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/tex.scm | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/tex.scm b/gnu/packages/tex.scm
index 8196e25fbf..9692f9ec22 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/tex.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/tex.scm
@@ -39980,6 +39980,30 @@ integrated into the LaTeX kernel (or in parts into 
permanent support
 packages), and the current testphase bundle will be removed.")
     (license license:lppl1.3c)))
 
+(define-public texlive-pdftricks
+  (package
+    (name "texlive-pdftricks")
+    (version (number->string %texlive-revision))
+    (source (texlive-origin
+             name version
+             (list "doc/latex/pdftricks/"
+                   "tex/latex/pdftricks/")
+             (base32
+              "07vr97rgn0n73zb2b3sb3wkwxl0p6nbnjk0cgxd05drf1k8shxnp")))
+    (outputs '("out" "doc"))
+    (build-system texlive-build-system)
+    (home-page "https://ctan.org/pkg/pdftricks";)
+    (synopsis "Support for PSTricks in pdfTeX")
+    (description
+     "The PSTricks macros cannot be used (directly) with pdfTeX, since
+PSTricks uses PostScript arithmetic, which isn't part of PDF.  This package
+circumvents this limitation so that the extensive facilities offered by the
+powerful PSTricks package can be made use of in a pdfTeX document.  This is
+done using the shell escape function available in current TeX implementations.
+The package may also be used in support of other PostScript-output-only
+packages, such as PSfrag.")
+    (license license:gpl3+)))
+
 (define-public texlive-pslatex
   (package
     (name "texlive-pslatex")



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