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From: raja@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Raja Sooriamurthi)
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Subject: Digital circuits in LaTeX.
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Date: 11 Jul 90 06:50:08 GMT
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For a manual that I'm preparing I need some digital circuits (made up
of AND, NAND, OR, NOR and XOR gates) interspersed with text. I gave it
a shot using the picture environment of LaTeX and produced quite
pleasant circuits using AND and NAND gates. But producing OR and XOR is
complicated because of the arcs required.  

My questions are:

	1. Have you included circuits with LaTeX text before
and if so what did you use. Information on  other packages/macros is
welcome. 

	2. I felt METAFONT might help in producing an 'alphabet' of
gates which I could then use to construct the circuits. I haven't done
any METAFONT programming before, but have recently acquired the book.
Would it be feasible to construct such a 'gate alphabet'. Better still,
has anyone done similar things before.

Thanks for any help and advice.

- Raja

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Raja Sooriamurthi                              Computer Science Department
raja@silver.ucs.indiana.edu                       Indiana University
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