Hello everybody - I'm happy to announce my first Perl module, Graphics::Asymptote, and the accompanying PDL::Graphics::Asymptote. This is a Perl wrapper for the Asymptote vector graphics language. Asymptote is similar in spirit to TeX in that you have a script that you compile to produce a document, in this case a figure. However, the language is largely based on C and is a respectable programming language in its own right. It's not exaclty like TeX: you can produce multiple figures from a single script, or none at all.
If you are not familiar with Asymptote, it excels at making beautiful eps figures. It uses TeX to typset any text in the figure so that subscripts, superscripts, and general math notation looks really nice. I use it to create all of my 'professional' figures (used in talks and papers). You can read more about Asymptote here: http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/ I don't know when it will be up on the CPAN mirrors, but if you want to download it manually, you should be able to find it here: http://pause.perl.org/pub/PAUSE/authors/id/D/DC/DCMERTENS/ David Please note: the Ubuntu (and probably Debian) binary for Asymptote is outdated, and I believe that one of the default command-line switches used in invoking the interpreter is not supported in the Ubuntu packages. I'm not entirely sure, because I work with the latest subversion of Asymptote. Feedback from anybody using Asymptote off-the-shelf with Ubuntu would be appreciated.
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