dformat is your friend - for this diagram On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:32 PM, roger peppe wrote: > On 24 May 2011 03:53, Russ Cox 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... > >