Re: [Groff] gpic question?

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Tue Feb  1 14:34:40 2005, address@hidden wrote:
> John:
> 
> I use pic whenever I can in place of the drawing tools available in
> Framemaker or xfig (UNIX) or Microsoft Word/Powerpoint. It is ALL too
> easy to screw up a carefully drawn illustration in a WYSIWYG with an
> unanticipated nudge of the mouse. pic provides extremely precise
> placement that is nevertheless quite robust as you modify an
> illustration. The language is easy to learn, and gpic provides some very
> nice extensions to AT&T pic.

Also don't forget the various preprocessors to pic. Two come to mind:
- grap for various kinds of diagrams and plots
- graphviz for graphs (in the computer science sense,
  e.g. tree structures)

/Jörgen

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