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: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 10:40:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <87imcz4ish.fsf@ebih.ebihd> <875z8y1qgc.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="15848"; 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 Tue Sep 01 10:41:30 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 1kD1r8-00043F-Tn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:41:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42918 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kD1r8-0004v4-0q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2020 04:41:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kD1qq-0004uy-PD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2020 04:41:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:62462) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kD1qo-0001cv-9W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2020 04:41:12 -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 0818f07B009418 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Tue, 1 Sep 2020 08:41:00 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 0818f74i026100; Tue, 1 Sep 2020 08:41:07 GMT In-Reply-To: <875z8y1qgc.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 = 2020/09/01 04:41:04 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:123887 Archived-At: > >> 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. > > Wonderful! Yes, I have `metapost-mode'! > > In the repos is texlive-metapost (and -doc) > > That's it, I take it? > Yes, that's the (Debian) package, and all you need. > > You have a small example I can compile? > See http://tex.loria.fr/prod-graph/zoonekynd/metapost/metapost.html . The MetaPost manual is quite readable, and contains many small examples : https://www.tug.org/docs/metapost/mpman.pdf .