On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 09:03:04AM +0200, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> > > Just a silly question: have you looked why the image is so big?
> 
> Just a proposal. What about putting moderately sized smooth pictures into
> the book and high resolution pics at some place in the web and make to book
> only pointing to these online pictures,

1) Postscript is supposed to be resolution-independent.
2) IMO book should be complete, that is include quality pictures

> in particular those probably
> hand-crafted pictures that appear in the middle of the Jenks&Sutor book?

I do not think we should "hand-craft" pictures.  We are open-source
project and deception (and "hand-crafting" really is deception)
would quickly fall apart.

> We
> should be able to not just scan, but generate those pictures. Unfortunately,
> I don't think that I have yet seen the actual commands that produced them.

There section 'Programs for FriCAS Images' in FriCAS book.  AFAIK
it gives the sources.  And AFAIUI Qian can generte those pictures.

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                              Waldek Hebisch

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