From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: make a drawing with Emacs Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:56:00 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87imcz4ish.fsf@ebih.ebihd> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17383"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 31 22:56:34 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 1kCqqu-0004Ku-5t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:56:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50922 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kCqqt-0007ER-8M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:56:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42204) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kCqqY-0007EA-G5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:56:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:64532) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kCqqW-00072n-97 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:56:10 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 07VKu4uG003543 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:56:04 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 07VKuCTm026490; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:56:12 GMT In-Reply-To: <87imcz4ish.fsf@ebih.ebihd> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/08/31 15:13:31 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? 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, SPF_HELO_PASS=-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:123874 Archived-At: > > 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? > I would do that with MetaPost. It allows you to do exactly what you want: input the data in an Emacs buffer (Emacs has a MetaPost mode), as a series of geometrical figures and equations, which is compiled into an image. Gregory