Re: [9fans] pic

2011-05-24 Thread roger peppe
On 24 May 2011 03:53, Russ Cox r...@swtch.com wrote: I would like to try to get something  running which would allow me to draw pic documents in a WYSIWYG style I have a load of rather complex drawings to do. If you will never have to edit them, whiteboard + digital camera. Otherwise, I've

Re: [9fans] pic

2011-05-24 Thread simon softnet
dformat is your friend - for this diagram On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:32 PM, roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 May 2011 03:53, Russ Cox r...@swtch.com wrote: I would like to try to get something running which would allow me to draw pic documents in a WYSIWYG style I have a load

Re: [9fans] pic

2011-05-24 Thread Anthony Sorace
geoff had a version of xfig... wow, my memory sucks. i'm now pretty sure that (1) this was actually xpic, not xfig, and more importantly, (2) i think we were running this on a solaris box in the lab and only displaying locally to the old plan9 x11. sorry a PGP.sig Description: This is a

Re: [9fans] pic

2011-05-24 Thread Russ Cox
Otherwise, I've found that it is always worth the time to program the drawings (pic macros, postscript functions, metapost, whatever), because then editing them is possible. out of interest, which of these do you use yourself by preference? I don't think I have one that I would say I prefer,

[9fans] pic

2011-05-23 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I would like to try to get something running which would allow me to draw pic documents in a WYSIWYG style I have a load of rather complex drawings to do. The obvious candidates (it seems to me) are: art (from the 2nd edition), though Andrey did stirling work porting it to

Re: [9fans] pic

2011-05-23 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
Google docs; no contest. -Skip On May 23, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: Hi, I would like to try to get something running which would allow me to draw pic documents in a WYSIWYG style I have a load of rather complex drawings to do. The obvious candidates (it

Re: [9fans] pic

2011-05-23 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
I use xcip on a modern Unix; http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/vsrinivas/xcip-modern.jpg There is a tarball in my contrib, xcip.tar; it is a copy of 1995-era xcip, made to build on recent linux systems. It needs Plan9port to build (9's lex and yacc, iirc). -- vs

Re: [9fans] pic

2011-05-23 Thread Iruatã Souza
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: Hi, I would like to try to get something  running which would allow me to draw pic documents in a WYSIWYG style I have a load of rather complex drawings to do. The obvious candidates (it seems to me) are:        art

Re: [9fans] pic

2011-05-23 Thread Anthony Sorace
On May 23, 2011, at 18:56, Steve Simon wrote: xfig + transfig - feels a bit like a patch on a patch and, being modern unix code would (no doubt) include configure hell... geoff had a version of xfig running on 3ed years ago. i can try to dig it up if you want to go that route. i

Re: [9fans] pic

2011-05-23 Thread Russ Cox
I would like to try to get something  running which would allow me to draw pic documents in a WYSIWYG style I have a load of rather complex drawings to do. If you will never have to edit them, whiteboard + digital camera. Otherwise, I've found that it is always worth the time to program the

Re: [9fans] pic

2011-05-23 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:56:28PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote: Hi, I would like to try to get something running which would allow me to draw pic documents in a WYSIWYG style I have a load of rather complex drawings to do. MetaPost. I found finally easier to program than to try to get

[9fans] pic and art

2008-05-13 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, Who is the keeper of the best port of art(1) to the 4th edition? I have seen Kenji san's and Andreys, anyone else done any work on it since then (the port is still not quite finished IMHO). Does anyone have a stock of pic macros for processing flow diagrams? -Steve