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From: isaac@goanna.oz.au (Isaac Balbin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.text
Subject: bringing xfig upto scratch. idraw issues.
Message-ID: <2846@goanna.oz.au>
Date: 9 Feb 90 00:09:32 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.x,comp.text
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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I am contemplating giving a programming project to a group
of 3rd year undergraduate students that would involve bringing
xfig to a better state. I mean, at least bringing it to a state where
it has all the features of fig-fs, and handles text (scaling, size etc)
better than fig-fs. Perhaps they might also bring some features from 
idraw to this new version of xfig. My motivation is clearly selfish,
with an X-terminal to land on my desk in the nearish future (Visual
Technology, are you listening, how is production of your 19" Turbo
going). Is anyone undertaking such a project or is it in the pipeline?
I guess they might use the Athena widget set. I don't know. I haven't even 
looked at the code ...
By the way, has anyone thought of an idraw to fig conversion program
or even idraw to eepic or something? How hard would this be?
Suggestions and comments welcome.		isaac@goanna.cs.rmit.OZ.AU

PS. All this because I use transfig and eepic for my TeX diagrams and find it
    most convenient since you can actually preview the diagrams as well with
    say xdvi or xtex!