From: roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pic
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 16:32:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikeF72zgdTYWhAuUieYO0m6WL4jAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin5hPayeFSkW92CNJ1X8UxN=RbZDg@mail.gmail.com>
On 24 May 2011 03:53, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If you will never have to edit them, whiteboard + digital camera.
>
> Otherwise, I've found that it is always worth the time to
> program the drawings (pic macros, postscript functions,
> metapost, whatever), because then editing them is possible.
out of interest, which of these do you use yourself by preference?
for example for this diagram:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZnVhQ3NyEx0/S4NfiL9UgZI/AAAAAAAAAB0/mW2hZr-Ay5k/s400/gorace4.png
getting those curves right can't be that easy if you're working
out the parameters manually, and doing the collision avoidance
programmatically can't be too easy either...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-24 15:32 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 [this message]
2011-05-24 15:48 ` simon softnet
2011-05-24 16:22 ` Russ Cox
2011-05-24 5:03 ` tlaronde
-- 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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