[OS X TeX] metapost

["M. Tamer Özsu"]

I wish there was a nice frontend for TikZ...

==Tamer
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M. Tamer Özsu
University of Waterloo
Cheriton School of Computer Science

On 2013-03-22, at 2:15 PM, William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com> wrote:

> On Mar 22, 2013, at 1:25 PM, NMPOST7 wrote:
> 
>> example 1:
>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Sri_Yantra_256bw.gif
>> 
>> example 2:
>> http://www.artchemy.org/wp-content/uploads/SRI-YANTRA-W.jpg
> 
> While could certainly draw those up by hand using a tool like Intaglio.app or Inkscape, I'd be inclined to agree w/ your initial intent to use METAPOST or something like to it.
> 
> Asymptote is a nice front-end and you may find it more amenable.
> 
> I've been trying to hoe this row for a while (wanting an alternative to using Macromedia FreeHand) and one interesting tool I've found is IPE:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipe7/
> 
> which is something of a graphical front-end to METAPOST.
> 
> William
> 
> -- 
> William Adams
> senior graphic designer
> Fry Communications
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