[comp.text.tex] creating pictures in TeX interactively?

minas@immd2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (M. Minas) (08/13/90)

I am looking for a program to create pictures in TeX in an 
interactive way (similar to MacDraw etc.). Is there someone
who knows about such a program or has it for Sun, Atari ST, 
IBM PC, or Macintosh? Please answer by email. 

Thank you in advance,
Mark Minas

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Mark Minas    e-mail: minas@immd2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
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spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (08/15/90)

In article <3064@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> minas@immd2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (M. Minas) writes:

   I am looking for a program to create pictures in TeX in an 
   interactive way (similar to MacDraw etc.). Is there someone
   who knows about such a program or has it for Sun, Atari ST, 
   IBM PC, or Macintosh? Please answer by email. 

assuming you want device-independent output (rather than  for a
PostScript printer), I'd suggest you look at
 - texcad: shareware for PC as part of emTeX
 - Fig (and xfig for X) public domain for Sun


sebastian
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