Re: make a drawing with Emacs

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

artist-mode? ;-)

On a more serious note, how about tikz?

Hth,
mb


On 2020-08-31, at 05:05, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> the project I'm currently working on is a tree house.
> It has two floors and then several extension
> platforms which are reachable by ropes. Here are some
> photos [1] - the "new-deck" was completed only one
> week ago or something :)
>
> Anyway, I'd like to make a drawing of it. Any idea
> what software might be used? Can Emacs do this?
> Or can you input the data in an Emacs buffer, and
> have it compile into an image using some
> 3rd-hand software?
>
> Optimally I'd like to just measure everything, then
> input the data - perhaps as geometrical figures?
> (e.g., a tree could be a circle, I input the diameter
> and relative position...) and then the programs
> compiles and produce the image ... good idea, right?
>
> Last time I asked this, several years ago and
> regarding another project, someone said org-mode can
> do this. I never used it, so are there some starters?
> I know org-mode can do state diagrams and all
> computer things, but can you have it draw arbitrary
> figures? If so, how?
>
> TIA
>
>
> [1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/work-photos/tree-house/


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