Re: make a drawing with Emacs

[Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca>]

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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> Tomas Hlavaty wrote:
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>> Here is an alternative which works even on console without any graphics
>> toolkit compiled in:
>>
>> (require 'xml)
>> (with-temp-buffer
>>   (xml-print
>>    '((svg
>>       ((xmlns . "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")
>>        (viewBox . "0 0 100 100"))
>>       (circle
>>        ((cx . "50") (cy . "50") (r . "20"))))))
>>   (write-file "/tmp/a.svg"))
>>
>> The /tmp/a.svg file will contain the SVG image.
>>
>> Now the nice part of doing it in pure Elisp is that
>> you can refactor the code into useful functions as
>> you need. For example [...]
>
> Indeed, that works great! Thanks a lot! Now I just
> have to get the primitives from the W3C tutorial and
> then implement neat little Elisp wrappers for all the
> common stuff...
>
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/svg-my.el
>
>> You can then display the generated image in the console using
>> https://logand.com/sw/emacs-framebuffer/file/emacs-framebuffer.el.html
>
> Really? :O
>
> And... how do I get just the .el file?

Line 9 of the file:

Download: git clone https://logand.com/git/emacs-framebuffer.git

Interesting thread.

Leo