From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <38d44a937853b7d7c9a875c3d90461db@quintile.net> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 17:48:25 +0200 Message-ID: From: simon softnet To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015174c1176bbc02904a4078436 Subject: Re: [9fans] pic Topicbox-Message-UUID: e8b9173a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0015174c1176bbc02904a4078436 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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... > > --0015174c1176bbc02904a4078436 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable dformat is your friend - for this diagram

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:32 PM, roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 24 May 2011 03:53, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>> I would like to try to get something =A0running 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 preferen= ce?
for example for this diagram:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZnV= hQ3NyEx0/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...


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