[OS X TeX] metapost

[Aaron Jackson]

On Mar 2, 2005, at 12:01 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> On 1 mrt 2005, at 19:28, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>  - And which calls for: what is a non-proprietory source drawing 
> format?
>
> On March 1, 2005, at 1.55 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote:
>
>  - The companion to TeX for figures: metapost.
>
>
> It sure does not look as if it were for the faint of heart.
>
> Has anyone tried Metagraf? It looks a bit LyX like. But it doesn't 
> look like it runs on OS X.
>
> The other thing is that none of what I have seen, during an admittedly 
> brief Google, seemed capable of producing pdf.

I don't remember the original thread, and I don't know if this was 
mentioned to you before, but have you looked at xfig?  There is a 
i-installer package and it  exports files in all sorts of file formats, 
including pdf.

Aaron

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