Erik Christiansen wrote: > Interesting ... I had not heard of it > previously. Looking at it on wikipedia, I see > "Most operations in Xfig are performed using > the mouse," For the first, I've had no luck > mouse-wrangling GUI drawing packages - it's > all so counter-intuitive, and nothing works > for me. For the second, after my 8 drawings > I cannot imagine how I'd mouse-wrangle > something as simple as a wall cross-section > with complete positional and dimensional > precision. In postscript, it's just: > > /wall_height 2700 def % X Y X Y 3600 0 moveto > 100 wall_height box % Let's put it at 3600 mm > from origin, % at floor level.
This is, again, exactly what I want. Is there a collection somewhere of the postscript syntax or how did you pick it up? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
