The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and the changes should soon be at your favorite mirror.

Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: pst-optexp Author's name: Christoph Bersch Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optexp Summary description: A PSTricks package to draw optical experimental setups License type: lppl

Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package pst-optexp is a collection of optical components that facilitate easy sketching of optical experimental setups. Mechanisms for proper alignment of different components are provided internally. This way the user does not have to care for proper orientation of the elements.

Changes in v1.1:

* Considerably enhanced labeling of the components. Added new parameter 'labelref' which specifies the reference coordinate system for the label positioning and the rotation of the label. Default is labelref=relgrav, the label point is rotated together with the component, but the label text itself is not rotated.

* parameter labelrelative is now obsolete, and replaced by labelref=relative. It will be removed in future versions.

* parameter polwidth, bswidth, iwidth and owidth are now obsolete, and replaced by polsize, bssize, innerheight and outerheight for consistency reasons. They will be removed in future versions.

* macro polarisation was changed to polarization for consistency reasons. The old notation is obsolete and will be removed in future versions.

* fixed bug: filling of all components with 'fillstyle' is now possible.

* fixed bug: added some liftpen=1 in the code to fix the look of the lenses and the optgrid. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optexp . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pst-optexp (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .