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Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:

> I wrote to Brian, who works part-time at Google, and
> pitched the idea to him, and he extended pic to
> generate SVG, though it wasn't clear to what sources
> he was modifying, exactly. Then the pandemic hit, and
> I ended up leaving Google, so I don't think it went
> beyond that, but IIRC he said that coercing pic to
> generate SVG wasn't particularly difficult.

I'm sure he'd have been messing with his own sources. These
days it'd be best to tr to get new features into GNU pic
(IMHO, of course).

Arnold