From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 5212 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2022 06:41:50 -0000 Received: from 9front.inri.net (168.235.81.73) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 30 Sep 2022 06:41:50 -0000 Received: from maat.thinktankworkspaces.com ([45.79.94.76]) by 9front; Fri Sep 30 02:39:17 -0400 2022 Message-ID: To: 9front@9front.org Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 23:39:14 -0700 From: william@thinktankworkspaces.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: secure app information replication Subject: Re: [9front] graphics tools Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk I'm really interested in this metapost. I was also tinkering with making some sort of front end that we can use in plan9 but mostly specific to vectoring rather than rastering. Something similar to dia http://dia-installer.de/ As far as rastering. I kind of think paint is fine but it would be nice to extend it a little more add the ability for straight lines, dithering and a few other things. Until you shared metafont I was resigned to build it using pic, troff and setup some sort of xml or yml to hold the information before genrating or running some of those tools to render or generate the appropriate output. But the more I think about it I start talking myself out of it. I think its a lot of work. I was thinking to use golang but I didn't want to piss off the 9fronters so C would be ideal but I wanted some sort of extensible features or plugins using Lua. I feel like plan9 needs this. Regardless. Nice find and I will spend more time reading about this. Thanks Quoth tlaronde@polynum.com: > https://github.com/luser-dr00g/xpost