New on CTAN: fxpicture
Date: October 16, 2026 3:35:15 PM CEST
William Bateman submitted the
fxpicture
package.
Version: 1.0 2026-10-15
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Dashed, dotted and dash-dotted line styles for the picture environment
Announcement text:
fxpicture adds dashed, dotted and dash-dotted lines to LATEX’s picture environment. It builds on pict2e (the more modern version of picture), and gives it two declarations, \linestyle and \dashpattern. Like \linethickness, they last until the end of the group, and they apply to every line that pict2e strokes, from \line and \vector to \oval, \circle and Bézier curves. The inspiration for this comes from user requests with out LaTeX picture editor on https://fxEditor.codecogs.com e.g. \setlength{\unitlength}{1mm} \begin{picture}(40,12) \linestyle{dotted} \put(0,10){\line(1,0){40}} \thicklines \put(0,5){\line(1,0){40}} \linethickness{1.2pt} \put(0,0){\line(1,0){40}} \end{picture}
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fxpicture More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/fxpicture
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .
fxpicture adds dashed, dotted and dash-dotted lines to LATEX’s picture environment. It builds on pict2e (the more modern version of picture), and gives it two declarations, \linestyle and \dashpattern. Like \linethickness, they last until the end of the group, and they apply to every line that pict2e strokes, from \line and \vector to \oval, \circle and Bézier curves. The inspiration for this comes from user requests with out LaTeX picture editor on https://fxEditor.codecogs.com e.g. \setlength{\unitlength}{1mm} \begin{picture}(40,12) \linestyle{dotted} \put(0,10){\line(1,0){40}} \thicklines \put(0,5){\line(1,0){40}} \linethickness{1.2pt} \put(0,0){\line(1,0){40}} \end{picture}
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fxpicture More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/fxpicture
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .
Fxpicture – Dashed, dotted and dash-dotted line styles for the picture environment
fxpicture adds dashed, dotted and dash-dotted lines to LaTeX’s picture environment. It builds on pict2e (the more modern version of picture), and gives it two declarations, \linestyle and \dashpattern. Like \linethickness, they last until the end of the group, and they apply to every line that pict2e strokes, from \line and \vector to \oval, \circle and Bézier curves. The same features are implement into the picture editor on fxEditor. e.g.
\setlength{\unitlength}{1mm}
\begin{picture}(40,12)
\linestyle{dotted}
\put(0,10){\line(1,0){40}}
\thicklines
\put(0,5){\line(1,0){40}}
\linethickness{1.2pt}
\put(0,0){\line(1,0){40}}
\end{picture}
| Package | Fxpicture |
| Version | 1.0 2026-10-15 |
| Copyright | 2026 CodeCogs Ltd. |
| Maintainer | William Bateman |