Re: [Flightgear-devel] making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-19 Thread Jim Wilson
Melchior FRANZ said: > Andy has once posted a method to create instrument scales using Perl to > output PostScript commands. While I like Perl, I'm not good at PS, so I > tried an alternate approach: MetaPost. > > MetaPost is a spin-off of MetaFont, which was designed to create the fonts > for Te

Re: [Flightgear-devel] making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-19 Thread Josh Babcock
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 19:09, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Andy has once posted a method to create instrument scales using Perl to output PostScript commands. While I like Perl, I'm not good at PS, so I tried an alternate approach: MetaPost. MetaPost is a spin-off of MetaFont, whi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-19 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 19:09, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Andy has once posted a method to create instrument scales using Perl to > output PostScript commands. While I like Perl, I'm not good at PS, so I > tried an alternate approach: MetaPost. > > MetaPost is a spin-off of MetaFont, which was designed

[Flightgear-devel] making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Andy has once posted a method to create instrument scales using Perl to output PostScript commands. While I like Perl, I'm not good at PS, so I tried an alternate approach: MetaPost. MetaPost is a spin-off of MetaFont, which was designed to create the fonts for TeX. Is comes with typical TeX insta