On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:42:11PM +0100, John Stalker wrote:
>
> For drawing, nothing beats rolling your own PostScript. Which leads
> me to a complaint about both TeX and troff. Both will happily typeset
> whole PostScript documents, but extreme trickery is needed to get them
> to produce fragments which can be inserted into hand rolled diagrams.
MetaPost allows you precisely to draw things (generating PostScript)
using TeX for the formatting of TeX---it can also use troff for the
formatting.
And it is in kerTeX.
MetaPost is really great!
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