Yes; I don't know if the Emacs thing was meant as a joke, but Postscript is
human readable and if you need to generate a bunch of something relatively
simple then just writing a script that spits out PS is often the easiest
way to do it. I've used that approach for generating place-cards for a
> If you can write Forth, you can write PS.
>
> I also generate PS with other programs.
Exactly. I'd used it as a poor-mans CAD package (
http://melwilsonsoftware.ca/psfiles/whitenoise-panel.ps ). It's an
excellent way to get pixel-level control of printed matter, and that's
around 1/300" on
On 2019-02-10 12:51 a.m., William Park via talk wrote:
Hi all,
What software do people use to draw illustrations that you'd see in
textbooks or presentations? Eg. data structure, high school math, block
diagrams, etc. I mean, I see them, but I don't know how to create them.
Hello William,
I haven't used it in many many years, but Dia was pretty good for
making data diagrams, flow charts, etc. It's just drag-n-drop
elements and filing in labels. Google Drawing isn't too bad for that
type of thing, too.
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On 2019-02-10 6:49 p.m., Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote:
If you can write Forth, you can write PS.
If you can write Forth or if you are used to using RPN calculators you can
write PS. I wrote some PS code for a project I worked on a few years ago. It
generated three separate graphs that
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019, Bob Jonkman via talk wrote:
On 2019-02-10 2:51 a.m., Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote:
> I use emacs to write PostScript programs and convert them to JPG or
GIF or PNG with ImageMagick.
I use a horseshoe magnet to manipulate the bits directly on a floppy
disk, then
On 2019-02-10 11:56 a.m., Giles Orr via talk wrote:
>
> I understand Inkscape is excellent in its domain - vector-based drawing
It is. I basically live in it, and have done for the last three years.
You *can* do photo work in it, but I don't recommend it. In the same
way, you *can* do vector
On 2019-02-10 12:51 a.m., William Park via talk wrote:
What software do people use to draw illustrations that you'd see in
textbooks or presentations?
The program(s) you can use will depend in part on the type of illustrations
you need. One program no one has mentioned yet is Inkscape. I've
On 2019-02-10 2:51 a.m., Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote:
> I use emacs to write PostScript programs and convert them to JPG or
GIF or PNG with ImageMagick.
I use a horseshoe magnet to manipulate the bits directly on a floppy
disk, then output them to paper tape on my PDP-8...
--Bob.
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:51:09 -0500
William Park via talk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What software do people use to draw illustrations that you'd see in
> textbooks or presentations? Eg. data structure, high school math, block
> diagrams, etc. I mean, I see them, but I don't know how to create them.
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 08:37, Christopher Browne via talk
wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 12:52 AM William Park via talk wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> What software do people use to draw illustrations that you'd see in
>> textbooks or presentations? Eg. data structure, high school math, block
>>
On Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 12:52 AM William Park via talk Hi all,
>
> What software do people use to draw illustrations that you'd see in
> textbooks or presentations? Eg. data structure, high school math, block
> diagrams, etc. I mean, I see them, but I don't know how to create them.
>
I almost
The Open Office set (Writer, Draw, Calc etc.) can get you started with WSYG
pages quite nicely. Tex & Latex were traditionally used to mark up math
notation and other txt ligature styles for printing and are well
documented. There are also a number of specialzed diagramatic tools for
scientific
For simple stuff, open office draw suffices. --dave
On 2019-02-10 2:51 a.m., Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019, William Park via talk wrote:
Hi all,
What software do people use to draw illustrations that you'd see in
textbooks or presentations? Eg. data structure, high
For simple stuff, open office draw suffices. --dave
On 2019-02-10 2:51 a.m., Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019, William Park via talk wrote:
Hi all,
What software do people use to draw illustrations that you'd see in
textbooks or presentations? Eg. data structure, high
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019, William Park via talk wrote:
Hi all,
What software do people use to draw illustrations that you'd see in
textbooks or presentations? Eg. data structure, high school math, block
diagrams, etc. I mean, I see them, but I don't know how to create them.
I use emacs to write
Hi all,
What software do people use to draw illustrations that you'd see in
textbooks or presentations? Eg. data structure, high school math, block
diagrams, etc. I mean, I see them, but I don't know how to create them.
--
William Park
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