From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: make a drawing with Emacs Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 22:48:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87h7shw7em.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: <87imcz4ish.fsf@ebih.ebihd> <20200831073639.GA18053@tuxteam.de> <878sdu36fg.fsf@ebih.ebihd> <87a6ya1qs4.fsf@ebih.ebihd> <20200901082203.GB4108@tuxteam.de> <87v9gxyjr6.fsf@ebih.ebihd> <20200901090453.GF4108@tuxteam.de> <87sgc1csyw.fsf@mbork.pl> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35553"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:AFBLAFkqx7aZDhWEgoFObZL+g1I= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 01 22:50:45 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kDDEr-000977-KF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2020 22:50:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47908 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kDDEq-0000GM-Mw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48754) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kDDEG-0000GD-G7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:33224 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kDDEE-0007OD-Ld for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kDDEA-0008PX-CA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2020 22:50:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/01 16:46:01 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123898 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: >> You want programmability. Look into TiKZ (whether >> you end up using it or not) for some inspiration >> on what you might want a drawing program to do for >> you. Or Metapost: as an heir to Metafont, it >> probably has that declarative touch to it. > > To expand a bit (as a TikZ user and a former > METAPOST user): > > METAPOST is older, has (I think) less add-ons than > TikZ, but has a few very distinctive features, most > notably drawing "nice" Bezier curves without > specifying the control points, and a declarative > engine for solving systems of linear equations - > a very nice thing to have when you want to find > intersections of lines. (TikZ has the former if you > use LuaTeX and some package I don't remember the > name of, and the latter sort-of, i.e., much > less general.) > > METAPOST is rather sparsely documented (that said, > I used it for considerable time and was satisfied > with it). > > If you stick with METAPOST, consider looking at > ConTeXt, which heavily extends it with the > so-called "METAFUN macros". > > Most probably, you want TikZ. Excellent software, > excellent documentation, numerous add-ons. > Nice things are: > > - it has a _lot_ of ways to specify coordinates > (2D, pseudo-3D, polar coordinates and a lot more), > > - there are a lot of ways to add various labels > (called "nodes") to the drawing. WOW, good post. I don't know anything about this! What is this software? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal