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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:48:52 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] troff book
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:42:11PM +0100, John Stalker wrote:
>
> For drawing, nothing beats rolling your own PostScript.  Which leads
> me to a complaint about both TeX and troff.  Both will happily typeset
> whole PostScript documents, but extreme trickery is needed to get them
> to produce fragments which can be inserted into hand rolled diagrams.

MetaPost allows you precisely to draw things (generating PostScript)
using TeX for the formatting of TeX---it can also use troff for the
formatting.

And it is in kerTeX.

MetaPost is really great!
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