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Re: Making xfig drawings with scheme


On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:41:34AM -0400, Harvey J. Stein wrote:
> [...]
> Not really.  Everything becomes a sequence of rather basic postscript
> commands.  For example, it doesn't make use of the postscript looping
> constructs and doesn't expose them to the scheme programmer.  So, for
> example, a loop generating 1000 nested squares becomes 1000 postscript
> polygon draw cmds instead of becomming a loop in postscript to
> generate the nested squares.
> 

... and that might be a problem for complex drawings. There is an
upper limit for certain things in PostScript (and often enough it's
anoyingly low ...). Off course it would be rather simple to have
a function 'ps-loop-over' or 'ps-for-char-in' (boy, i'm finally back to
postscript programming ;-)

 Ralf


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