Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Unix 'pic'-like tool for LaTeX? Message-ID: Date: 5 Mar 90 11:12:03 GMT References: <1001.25ed0253@simpact.com> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 16 In-reply-to: jeh@simpact.com's message of 1 Mar 90 19:06:59 GMT >>>>> On 1 Mar 90 19:06:59 GMT, jeh@simpact.com said: > What I was hoping for was something like the 'pic' preprocessor that > plays with eqn, tbl, and troff: A simple object-oriented language > for drawing pictures with LaTeX. its easy, you use `tpic', a preprocessor that takes pic input and produces TeX \special output. problems a) your dvi processor needs to understand the \specials b) you have to have a DWB license to get tpic, as it uses proprietary code. if you want to get tpic, mail morgan@ics.uci.edu (Tim Morgan) who will ask you for a xerox of your DWB license. -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)