On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Hugh Aguilar <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been reading the Factor documentation. I think that Factor is likely
> not capable of that slide-rule program that I described. I can write code to
> generate SVG in any language (including Forth), but I need some way to turn
> that SVG into an image that can be displayed on the screen. I don't see
> anything in the Factor library that can do this. I found some SVG functions,
> but they seemed to be used for generating SVG. That is somewhat helpful, but
> *using* the SVG is what I need.

You can use the Cairo library to display SVG. Factor has an incomplete
Cairo binding in basis/cairo/ that can be fleshed out.

> One other question --- what editor do you guys prefer on Linux for working
> with Factor code? Has anybody written Factor support, such as
> syntax-coloring, for any editor?

Look in the misc/ subdirectory of the Factor tree. There you will find
support for emacs, vim, and TextMate.

Slava

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