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From: louis@deveel.aero.org (Louis McDonald)
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Subject: Re: A Picture Editor for TeX, on the Macintosh?
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Date: 24 Jun 91 21:55:04 GMT
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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. 

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