gar@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Greg Restall) (06/20/91)
The subject-line says most of it. Is there such a beast that will let you edit pictures on the screen, and convert them to LaTeX picture commands -- that runs on a Mac? If there isn't, I'm sure a lot of OzTeX users would be a lot happier if there were. So, this sounds like a good incentive for a utilitarian Macintosh programmer, with TeXpertise. Now if only there were such a beast... Greg. -- -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Greg Restall | Philosophy Department, University of Queensland. gar@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au | Queensland, 4072. Australia. -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
beck@CS.Cornell.EDU (Micah Beck) (06/20/91)
gar@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Greg Restall) writes: > The subject-line says most of it. Is there such a beast > that will let you edit pictures on the screen, and convert > them to LaTeX picture commands -- that runs on a Mac? If > there isn't, I'm sure a lot of OzTeX users would be a lot > happier if there were. So, this sounds like a good incentive > for a utilitarian Macintosh programmer, with TeXpertise. > Now if only there were such a beast... The right approach to this would be to write a Mac graphics editor which produced Fig code, and then port TransFig to the Mac to translate it into LaTeX picture environment, PS, PiCTeX, or other forms. No sense in some programmer writing a graphics editor for use with TeX which is not Fig-compatible. Micah Beck Cornell CS Dept
edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) (06/20/91)
I use MacDraw for this: and dvips to insert the result into my TeX output. -- Gerald A. Edgar Internet: edgar@mps.ohio-state.edu Department of Mathematics Bitnet: EDGAR@OHSTPY The Ohio State University telephone: 614-292-0395 (Office) Columbus, OH 43210 -292-4975 (Math. Dept.) -292-1479 (Dept. Fax)
louis@deveel.aero.org (Louis McDonald) (06/25/91)
In article <1991Jun20.003820.29404@cs.cornell.edu> beck@CS.Cornell.EDU (Micah Beck) writes: >gar@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Greg Restall) writes: > >> The subject-line says most of it. Is there such a beast >> that will let you edit pictures on the screen, and convert >> them to LaTeX picture commands -- that runs on a Mac? If >> there isn't, I'm sure a lot of OzTeX users would be a lot >> happier if there were. So, this sounds like a good incentive >> for a utilitarian Macintosh programmer, with TeXpertise. >> Now if only there were such a beast... > >The right approach to this would be to write a Mac graphics editor >which produced Fig code, and then port TransFig to the Mac to >translate it into LaTeX picture environment, PS, PiCTeX, or other >forms. No sense in some programmer writing a graphics editor for >use with TeX which is not Fig-compatible. > >Micah Beck >Cornell CS Dept There is a program I grabbed sometime ago called LaGrafix (was called PicTeX, but that was confusing with the "PicTeX"). Anyway, it was a MacDraw like tool that could read and write LaTeX picture commands. I am not sure it is on Sumex, but I could binhex the copy I have and post it here. -- =============================================================================== Louis McDonald louis@deveel.aero.org| THIS SPACE FOR RENT Phone: 213-336-8914 FAX: 213-336-5827 | ===============================================================================