and nroff (Re: Drawing Programs, Printers . . . )

[Robert L. Haar CS50]

In article <526 at abacab.UUCP>, hartman at abacab.UUCP (Mark A. Hartman) writes:
|> In article <668377781 at macbeth.cs.duke.edu> pusateri at duke.cs.duke.edu
(Thomas J. Pusateri) writes:
|> ->In article <1181 at hico2.UUCP> kak at hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) writes:
|> ->>In article <5237 at umbc3.UMBC.EDU>, motteler at umbc4.umbc.edu (Howard
E. Motteler) writes:
|> ->>> What I'd *really* like to be able to do is to mix
|> ->>> even some limited graphics (e.g., the "cheap draw" program's
|> ->>> output) with the tex output.
|> ->>. . .
|> ->>What *I'd* like is the program that looks like "MacPaint" or Cheapdraw
|> ->>and outputs PIC language graphics so I can include them in my documents.
|> ->
|> ->If you're familiar with the fig and xfig drawing tools, then you know that
|> ->there is a utility to convert fig to pic (f2p) and fig to tex or latex
|> ->(transfig). The fig file format is ascii, straight forward, and
well defined.
|> ->All we need to do is modify the cheapdraw output file to conform to
fig file
|> ->format and we're in business. There are several different versions of fig
|> ->files. 1.3, 1.4, and 1.4X come to mind.
|> 
|> I wrote something called cdraw2fig a while back that does precisely that.
|> It is on its way to comp.sources.3b1 now.
|> 
Is there a version of fig that runs on the 3b1 ?  I am using xfig v2.0
on Sun's at work. It would be nice to have compatible drawing programs
both places. Also, we use f2ps to convert fig drawings to postscript - can then
be printed on pulled into tex files.

	Bob Haar  InterNet : rhaar at albert.cs.gmr.com 
	Computer Science Dept., G.M. Research Laboratories
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