Vaucanson Project

VauCanSon-G is a Latex package of macros based on PSTricks and allows to ``easily'' draw automata within texts or slides written using LaTeX.

This first version is distributed since June 2002 and is fully documented by a complete user's manual. A second version is under construction. Comments and remarks from the first version users are especially welcome.

Philosophy

The design of VauCanSon-G implements the following underlying philosophy :

• `simple' automata should be described with simple commands.
• Every element of a figure can easily be given a style (which differs from the implicit one).
• The complexity of commands (or the number of things to be remembered to use them) should gradually grow with the complexity of the figure composed by these commands.
• It should be possible to handle the figures both in size and appearance without modifying them.