
                        EUKLEIDES version 1.5.3
                       Win32 binary distribution

                Copyright (c) Christian Obrecht 2004-2010

                         obrecht@eukleides.org

1. PURPOSE

Eukleides is a computer language devoted to elementary plane geometry.
It aims to be a fairly comprehensive system to create geometric figures,
either static or dynamic. It allows to handle basic types of data:
numbers and strings, as well as geometric types of data: points,
vectors, sets (of points), lines, circles, and conics.

    A Eukleides script usually consists in a declarative part where
objects are defined, and a descriptive part where objects are drawn.
Nonetheless, Eukleides is also a full featured programming language,
providing conditional and iterative structures, user defined functions,
modules, etc. Hence, it can easily be extended. A quick start page and
some code samples are available on-line (www.eukleides.org), in addition
to the Eukleides Reference Manual which is maintained as a Texinfo
manual.

    The Eukleides distribution provides two distinct interpreters:
'eukleides' and 'euktopst,' and three shell scripts: 'euktoeps',
'euktotex', and 'euktopdf'. The former interpreter produces Encapsulated
PostScript (EPS). The later, which is run by the scripts, produces
TeXable PSTricks macros. The 'euktoeps' script is an alternative to
'eukleides' when mathematics typesetting is required. The two other
scripts are useful when using Eukleides together with LaTeX.

    Bug reports as well as comments or contributions should be sent to
the author of Eukleides, Christian Obrecht (obrecht@eukleides.org).

2. LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.

    See file COPYING for more details.

3. INSTALL

The present Eukleides distribution provides win32 binaries of the
'eukleides' and 'euktopst' interpreters as well as replacements for the
shell scripts 'euktotex' and 'euktopdf'. These executables should
be copied to an appropriate location on your system. Putting them
together with your TeX binaries might be a good choice, e.g.
'C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\miktex\bin' when using MiKTeX.

    Likewise, the 'eukleides' directory which contains the 'eukleides'
LaTeX package should be copied to your system's TEXMF tree, e.g. in
'C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex', and the file name data base
updated. When using MiKTeX, this can be done manually from within the
'MiKTeX Options' program.

    The Eukleides Reference Manual in PDF is available online as a
separate file.
