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Article #10379Re: A Picture Editor for TeX, on the Macintosh?
From: Micah Beck
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 00:38
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 00:38
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gar@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Greg Restall) writes: > The subject-line says most of it. Is there such a beast > that will let you edit pictures on the screen, and convert > them to LaTeX picture commands -- that runs on a Mac? If > there isn't, I'm sure a lot of OzTeX users would be a lot > happier if there were. So, this sounds like a good incentive > for a utilitarian Macintosh programmer, with TeXpertise. > Now if only there were such a beast... The right approach to this would be to write a Mac graphics editor which produced Fig code, and then port TransFig to the Mac to translate it into LaTeX picture environment, PS, PiCTeX, or other forms. No sense in some programmer writing a graphics editor for use with TeX which is not Fig-compatible. Micah Beck Cornell CS Dept
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!batcomputer!cornell!beck From: beck@CS.Cornell.EDU (Micah Beck) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,aus.tex Subject: Re: A Picture Editor for TeX, on the Macintosh? Message-ID: <1991Jun20.003820.29404@cs.cornell.edu> Date: 20 Jun 91 00:38:20 GMT References: <1991Jun19.224455.16648@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU> Sender: news@cs.cornell.edu (USENET news user) Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853 Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: bongo.cs.cornell.edu