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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pic
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 22:53:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTin5hPayeFSkW92CNJ1X8UxN=RbZDg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38d44a937853b7d7c9a875c3d90461db@quintile.net>

> 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.

Russ


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-24  2:53 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 [this message]
2011-05-24 15:32   ` roger peppe
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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