From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3E41DCC3.8000203@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <42bd3c02f2fd05eb006f66509661ce0b@plan9.escet.urjc.es>, Subject: Re: [9fans] pic generators? Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:40:59 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 50976b9c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Sam wrote: > I don't mind learning pic if it was designed to be human > writable. I just need to be told that. Pic's language is pretty easy to learn. If you have access to cip or xcip they were the original GUIs for laying out pic images. There are reports that xfig can output in cip format. Many preprocessors output pic files (e.g. grap, dag, chem). Grap is fairly general, while dag (later dotty et al.) lays out graph structures and chem formats molecular diagrams. These can exploit pic's programmability, which isn't quite as powerful as PostScript but is much easier to use.