Re: [9fans] native library: linking err

2011-03-15 Thread Steve Simon
graphviz package in my contrib is (I believe) documented here: http://www.graphviz.org/ Would that be the right choice when I care mostly drawing areas filled with color and pattern, with some basic text functions? sounds like a job for pic(1) - A friend of troff. Troff has a

Re: [9fans] native library: linking err

2011-03-15 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
sounds like a job for pic(1) - A friend of troff. Troff has a postscript backend, pic if fine, but I think it can't do areas delimited by bezier curves, and filled w/color+hash, does it? BTW, ps2pdf (it is a part of gs, isn't it?) emitted a (huge) bitmap wrapped in pdf, last time I used it

Re: [9fans] native library: linking err

2011-03-15 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
st...@quintile.net wrote: graphviz package in my contrib is (I believe) documented here: graphviz is OK, i just wanted to steal some ps-generating functions from psgen.c (in dotneato/common) but i was not sure abou the meaning of some params... do you think that psgen.c would be a candidate

[9fans] slightly on topic: pic preprocessor for drawing electronic circuits

2011-03-15 Thread Fernan Bolando
In the same spirit as Brian Kerninghans chem preprocessor. I wrote a pic preprocessor in awk for drawing circuit diagrams. This is after looking for various options and did not find one for troff. it can downloaded from http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/fernan/schem.tgz I have attached

Re: [9fans] slightly on topic: pic preprocessor for drawing electronic circuits

2011-03-15 Thread Bruce Ellis
Sounds cool. I'm using AVRs in the jeep fit out for the expedition. Anyone else here playing with these chips? brucee On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Fernan Bolando fernanbola...@mailc.net wrote: In the same spirit as Brian Kerninghans chem preprocessor. I wrote a pic preprocessor in awk for

Re: [9fans] slightly on topic: pic preprocessor for drawing electronic circuits

2011-03-15 Thread John Floren
I used them to make a couple hand-held chording keypads. Convenient little beasts. John On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Bruce Ellis bruce.el...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds cool. I'm using AVRs in the jeep fit out for the expedition. Anyone else here playing with these chips? brucee On Tue,

[9fans] sign extension a gogo,

2011-03-15 Thread erik quanstrom
woe be unto he who abuses the right holy GBIT* macros with signed integers; for verily will he be smitten by lust for sign extension. i say unto you, he will be screwed. (i'm looking at you devpnp.) - erik p.s. maybe a few ugly casts in the macros? it is quite a silly bug. or heven forbid,