The PP3 program for drawing celestial maps.

PP3 generates celestial charts of high (typo)graphical quality. It uses LaTeX + pstricks for this, so the end formats are EPS and PDF (in contrast to mere bitmaps).

The program automatically avoids labels that overlap, and you can change many parameters. You can place arbitrary text on the map using the flexibility of the LaTeX language.

• Introduction: The ideas behind it.
• Installation: Some ways to set PP3 up.
• Basic astronomical terms: Rectascension, declination, and such.
• Usage: How to invoke PP3.
• Input scripts: Telling PP3 what to do.
• Keywords reference: List of all PP3 keywords.
• PP3 and LaTeX: LaTeX in labels, and LaTeX preambles.
• Known problems: List of known shortcomings and bugs.
• Data file formats: Internal structure of the database files.
• List of all constellations: All 88 official constellations with their abbreviations and coordinates.
• Index: General index.

This manual exists as a multiple HTML (also in ZIP form) and single HTML page and a PDF file.

Copyright © 2003 Torsten Bronger <bronger@users.sourceforge.net>.

This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the MIT licence. Please see the COPYING file of the PP3 distribution for further information.