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From: beck@CS.Cornell.EDU (Micah Beck)
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Subject: Re: A Picture Editor for TeX, on the Macintosh?
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Date: 20 Jun 91 00:38:20 GMT
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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