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From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pic
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 07:03:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110524050348.GA600@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38d44a937853b7d7c9a875c3d90461db@quintile.net>

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:56:28PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to try to get something  running which
> would allow me to draw pic documents in a WYSIWYG style
> I have a load of rather complex drawings to do.

MetaPost.

I found finally easier to program than to try to get exactly what I want
with a graphical interface.

To see it with kerTeX :

tex mproof <fig>.[1-9]*

and then dvips to have a "book" with all the figures. (mproof is part of
John Hobby's MetaPost.)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-24  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-23 22:56 Steve Simon
2011-05-23 23:05 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-05-23 23:19   ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-05-24  1:19 ` Iruatã Souza
2011-05-24  2:26 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-05-24 16:11   ` Anthony Sorace
2011-05-24  2:53 ` Russ Cox
2011-05-24 15:32   ` roger peppe
2011-05-24 15:48     ` simon softnet
2011-05-24 16:22     ` Russ Cox
2011-05-24  5:03 ` tlaronde [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-13 19:48 Skip Tavakkolian
2003-10-13 20:12 ` Russ Cox
2003-10-15  5:51 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-15  7:31   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-10-16 22:03     ` Charles Forsyth

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