On May 23, 2011, at 18:56, Steve Simon wrote:

> 	xfig + transfig - feels a bit like a patch on a patch and, being
> 	modern unix code would (no doubt) include configure hell...

geoff had a version of xfig running on 3ed years ago. i can try to
dig it up if you want to go that route. i didn't use it much, but it did
the job when needed.