[vox-tech] Rant: LaTeX graphics programs

Karsten M. Self kmself at ix.netcom.com
Fri Apr 29 13:42:24 PDT 2005


on Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:25:08PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman (p at dirac.org) wrote:

> It's NOT a hyperbole to say that I can do most diagrams faster by coding the
> picture environment by hand than drawing the equivalent diagram with xfig.
> Maybe if xfig developers stole the Gimp interface things would be better.
> As it stands, it looks like a musty UNIX(TM) application from the 80's.

Look at the copyright dates.  It is.

Updated since, but still at its guts, mid/late 80s stuff.


Peace.

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