curves – Curves for LaTeX pic­ture en­vi­ron­ment

The draws curves in the stan­dard LaTeX pic­ture en­vi­ron­ment us­ing parabo­las be­tween data points with con­tin­u­ous slope at joins; for cir­cles and arcs, it uses up to 16 parabo­las. The pack­age also draws sym­bols or dash pat­terns along curves.
The pack­age pro­vides fa­cil­i­ties equiv­a­lent to tech­ni­cal pens with com­passes and French curves. Curves con­sist of short se­cants drawn by over­lap­ping disks or line-draw­ing \spe­cial com­mands se­lected by pack­age op­tions.