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Section 11 Graphics

Some graphics languages require the xelatex engine, which this document presumes.

Subsection 11.1 PSTricks

PSTricks is a package for drawing diagrams and pictures, dating back to the days before PDF when PostScript (PS) was king. Given its history, it does not seem to work easily with the pdflatex engine. But it will work easily with the xelatex engine. So we test and document this approach here.
For the following we add
\usepackage{pstricks-add}
to the latex-image-preamble portion of docinfo. Your diagrams might be fine with simply the pstricks package. Following comes from
https://www.tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=Examples/polar#lemniscate
accessed on 2018-02-05.
Note that the width attribute is respected for HTML output, but ignored for the output. This situation could change.
Figure 11.1. A Lemniscate