diff --git a/.github/workflows/main-aarch64.yml b/.github/workflows/main-aarch64.yml
index 7100dd25..2eeb84e1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main-aarch64.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main-aarch64.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ jobs:
       - name: Get Dependencies
         run: |
           sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y tcl-dev tk-dev libcairo-dev
+          sudo apt-get install -y tcl-dev tk-dev libcairo-dev \
+            texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended
       - name: Build
         run: |
           ./configure
diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index bd8a36cf..2d585eba 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: Get Dependencies
         run: |
           sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y tcl-dev tk-dev libcairo-dev
+          # tcl/tk + cairo for the build; texlive (latex + dvips) so the default
+          # "make" also regenerates the PostScript documentation.  Docs are
+          # best-effort — a missing texlive package just falls back to the
+          # pre-built PostScript, it does not fail the build.
+          sudo apt-get install -y tcl-dev tk-dev libcairo-dev \
+            texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended
       - name: Build
         run: |
           ./configure
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 22b66957..cb8812c6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -78,3 +78,10 @@ npm/examples/output/
 .claudeignore
 CLAUDE.md
 CLAUDE.local.md
+# LaTeX documentation build artifacts (an in-tree "make" regenerates the
+# PostScript here when latex+dvips are installed; out-of-tree these live in the
+# build dir instead).  The pre-built PostScript under doc/psfiles/ stays tracked.
+doc/latexfiles/psfiles/
+doc/latexfiles/*.dvi
+doc/latexfiles/*.aux
+doc/latexfiles/*.log
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index 353d0df2..ac25a365 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -23,7 +23,11 @@ INSTALL_CAD_DIRS = windows doc ${TECHS}
 
 -include defs.mak
 
-all:	$(ALL_TARGET) techs
+# "docs" when configure found latex+dvips (regenerate PostScript from .tex into
+# the build tree), empty otherwise (the pre-built PostScript is installed as-is).
+DOCS_TARGET = @DOCS_TARGET@
+
+all:	$(ALL_TARGET) techs $(DOCS_TARGET)
 
 standard: mains
 
@@ -103,6 +107,15 @@ techs: depend
 	for dir in ${TECHS}; do \
 		mkdir -p $$dir && ${MAKE} -C $$dir -f ${MAGICSRC}/$$dir/Makefile all || exit 1; done
 
+# Regenerate the PostScript documentation from its .tex sources (only reached
+# from "all" when configure found latex+dvips; see DOCS_TARGET).
+.PHONY: docs
+docs:
+	@echo --- making documentation
+	@mkdir -p doc/latexfiles
+	@${MAKE} -k -C doc/latexfiles -f ${MAGICSRC}/doc/latexfiles/Makefile all || \
+	    echo "--- WARNING: some documents did not regenerate; the pre-built PostScript will be used for those at 'make install'"
+
 install: $(INSTALL_TARGET)
 
 install-magic:
diff --git a/README.Tcl b/README.Tcl
index 58f65c79..1375d2da 100644
--- a/README.Tcl
+++ b/README.Tcl
@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ read these instructions first.
    the IRSIM module is not selected at compile-time;  in Tcl it is a
    run-time loadable module.
 
+   Optional (documentation):  to regenerate the PostScript documentation
+   from its LaTeX sources you need "latex" and "dvips".  On Debian/Ubuntu
+   these come from the TeX Live packages texlive-latex-base,
+   texlive-latex-recommended, and texlive-fonts-recommended.  When
+   "configure" finds both tools it prints "LaTeX docs: yes" in its summary
+   and the default "make" regenerates the docs into the build tree.  If the
+   tools are absent (or a particular document fails to typeset), the
+   pre-built PostScript shipped in the source tree is installed as-is, so
+   documentation is always available either way -- installing latex simply
+   refreshes it from source.
+
 2) At the top level, do "./configure" and any other options (such as
    "--prefix=DIR" for non-default installation location).  "prefix"
    determines the value $CAD_ROOT, which is set to ${prefix}/lib,
diff --git a/doc/latexfiles/Makefile b/doc/latexfiles/Makefile
index 86c70fca..21b664a4 100644
--- a/doc/latexfiles/Makefile
+++ b/doc/latexfiles/Makefile
@@ -49,19 +49,24 @@ $(DESTDIR)${PS_INSTDIR}/%: $(DESTDIR)${PS_INSTDIR}
 	${CP} $$f $(DESTDIR)${PS_INSTDIR}/$*
 
 # Regenerate a .ps (into the build tree) from its .tex (in the source tree).
+# Several .tex include figures as ../psfigures/*.ps (relative to this dir).
+# Out-of-tree that would resolve into the empty build tree, so point the
+# build-tree ../psfigures at the source copy (a no-op in-tree, where it already
+# exists); both latex and dvips then find the figures, outputs stay in-build.
 ${PS_GENDIR}/%.ps: %.tex
 	@mkdir -p ${PS_GENDIR}
+	@test -e ../psfigures || ln -s ${MAGICSRC}/doc/psfigures ../psfigures
 	@echo "Converting $*.tex -> $*.dvi"
-	@TEXINPUTS=$(srcdir): latex $(srcdir)/$*.tex  < /dev/null > /dev/null
+	@TEXINPUTS=$(srcdir): ${LATEX} $(srcdir)/$*.tex  < /dev/null > /dev/null
 	@if grep 'LaTeX Warn' $*.log; \
 	then \
 		echo "Detected warnings, doing second pass for $*...";\
-		TEXINPUTS=$(srcdir): latex $(srcdir)/$*.tex < /dev/null > /dev/null; \
+		TEXINPUTS=$(srcdir): ${LATEX} $(srcdir)/$*.tex < /dev/null > /dev/null; \
 		(grep 'LaTeX Warn' $*.log || (echo > /dev/null)); \
 		echo; \
 	fi
 	@echo "Converting $*.dvi -> ${PS_GENDIR}/$*.ps"
-	@dvips -t letter $*.dvi -o ${PS_GENDIR}/$*.ps > /dev/null
+	@${DVIPS} -t letter $*.dvi -o ${PS_GENDIR}/$*.ps > /dev/null
 
 clean:
 	${RM} $(GENDVI) $(GEN_GENPS) *.log *.aux
diff --git a/scripts/configure b/scripts/configure
index 1f9b5368..7dfa7d2a 100755
--- a/scripts/configure
+++ b/scripts/configure
@@ -682,6 +682,9 @@ X_PRE_LIBS
 X_CFLAGS
 XMKMF
 PYTHON3
+DOCS_TARGET
+DVIPS
+LATEX
 GCORE
 ALLOCA
 EGREP
@@ -6314,6 +6317,97 @@ fi
 
 
 
+# Extract the first word of "latex", so it can be a program name with args.
+set dummy latex; ac_word=$2
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
+if ${ac_cv_path_LATEX+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  case $LATEX in
+  [\\/]* | ?:[\\/]*)
+  ac_cv_path_LATEX="$LATEX" # Let the user override the test with a path.
+  ;;
+  *)
+  as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
+for as_dir in $PATH
+do
+  IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
+    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
+  if as_fn_executable_p "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; then
+    ac_cv_path_LATEX="$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"
+    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
+    break 2
+  fi
+done
+  done
+IFS=$as_save_IFS
+
+  test -z "$ac_cv_path_LATEX" && ac_cv_path_LATEX="no"
+  ;;
+esac
+fi
+LATEX=$ac_cv_path_LATEX
+if test -n "$LATEX"; then
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $LATEX" >&5
+$as_echo "$LATEX" >&6; }
+else
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
+$as_echo "no" >&6; }
+fi
+
+
+# Extract the first word of "dvips", so it can be a program name with args.
+set dummy dvips; ac_word=$2
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
+if ${ac_cv_path_DVIPS+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  case $DVIPS in
+  [\\/]* | ?:[\\/]*)
+  ac_cv_path_DVIPS="$DVIPS" # Let the user override the test with a path.
+  ;;
+  *)
+  as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
+for as_dir in $PATH
+do
+  IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
+    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
+  if as_fn_executable_p "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; then
+    ac_cv_path_DVIPS="$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"
+    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
+    break 2
+  fi
+done
+  done
+IFS=$as_save_IFS
+
+  test -z "$ac_cv_path_DVIPS" && ac_cv_path_DVIPS="no"
+  ;;
+esac
+fi
+DVIPS=$ac_cv_path_DVIPS
+if test -n "$DVIPS"; then
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $DVIPS" >&5
+$as_echo "$DVIPS" >&6; }
+else
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
+$as_echo "no" >&6; }
+fi
+
+
+if test "x${LATEX}" != "xno" -a "x${DVIPS}" != "xno" ; then
+   DOCS_TARGET="docs"
+else
+   DOCS_TARGET=""
+fi
+
+
+
+
 # Extract the first word of "python3", so it can be a program name with args.
 set dummy python3; ac_word=$2
 { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
@@ -10578,6 +10672,13 @@ else
    fi
 fi
 
+${ECHO_N} "LaTeX docs:   "
+if test "x${DOCS_TARGET}" != "x" ; then
+   echo "yes"
+else
+   echo "no  (install 'latex' and 'dvips' to regenerate documentation)"
+fi
+
 echo "-----------------------------------------------------------"
 echo
 echo "Use 'make' to compile and 'make install' to install."
diff --git a/scripts/configure.in b/scripts/configure.in
index 8fc89cb5..a703cdc1 100644
--- a/scripts/configure.in
+++ b/scripts/configure.in
@@ -359,6 +359,21 @@ dnl Check for gcore, used by niceabort.c
 
 AC_PATH_PROG(GCORE, gcore, [no])
 
+dnl LaTeX + dvips are optional.  When both are present the default "make"
+dnl regenerates the PostScript documentation (doc/latexfiles) from the .tex
+dnl sources into the build tree.  When either is missing, the pre-built
+dnl PostScript shipped in the source tree is installed as-is instead.
+AC_PATH_PROG(LATEX, latex, no)
+AC_PATH_PROG(DVIPS, dvips, no)
+if test "x${LATEX}" != "xno" -a "x${DVIPS}" != "xno" ; then
+   DOCS_TARGET="docs"
+else
+   DOCS_TARGET=""
+fi
+AC_SUBST(LATEX)
+AC_SUBST(DVIPS)
+AC_SUBST(DOCS_TARGET)
+
 dnl Python3 is preferred for running the preprocessor script
 dnl but CPP can be used instead.
 AC_PATH_PROG([PYTHON3], [python3], [no])
@@ -2094,6 +2109,13 @@ else
    fi
 fi
 
+${ECHO_N} "LaTeX docs:   "
+if test "x${DOCS_TARGET}" != "x" ; then
+   echo "yes"
+else
+   echo "no  (install 'latex' and 'dvips' to regenerate documentation)"
+fi
+
 echo "-----------------------------------------------------------"
 echo
 echo "Use 'make' to compile and 'make install' to install."
diff --git a/scripts/defs.mak.in b/scripts/defs.mak.in
index 2388d12e..d64b1627 100755
--- a/scripts/defs.mak.in
+++ b/scripts/defs.mak.in
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ LD                     = @LD@
 MKDIR                  = mkdir
 PERL                   = @PERL@
 SED                    = @SED@
+LATEX                  = @LATEX@
+DVIPS                  = @DVIPS@
 MCPP		       = @MCPP@
 MSED		       = @MSED@
 RANLIB                 = @RANLIB@