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Re: Making xfig drawings with scheme
- To: Ian Grant <Ian dot Grant at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Making xfig drawings with scheme
- From: Dirk Herrmann <dirk at ida dot ing dot tu-bs dot de>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:59:32 +0200 (MEST)
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Ian Grant wrote:
> I've used guile to draw some figures for a mathematician. I had to do a lot
> of stuff with conics in strange positions and ordinary graphing packages
> didn't seem up to it. So I threw this together (in a hurry - and I suspect my
> scheme skills have improved since I wrote it, but it works.) You can get it
> from
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ig206/guile-fig.tar.gz
>
> It creates xfig drawings. The test.scm example shoes how. The following
This is very cool and seems to be quite simple to use. However, if I get
the fps fonts to work, this is probably the way to go for me, just because
it's a more 'complete' solution: They have provided all of postscript on
the scheme level.
Many thanks,
Dirk