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Re: Interactive preparation of presentation graphics from S

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Venables)
Tue Jan 31 10:05:52 1995

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From: wvenable@attunga.stats.adelaide.edu.au (Bill Venables)
Date: 31 Jan 1995 05:11:50 GMT

>>>>> "Douglas" == Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes:

Douglas> A few years ago I suggested that it may be possible to
Douglas> add the power of interactive graphical editing to S
Douglas> graphics cheaply by writing an S device driver for a
Douglas> program like "idraw".

The `fig' driver goes part of the way, of course.  xfig is hardly
the most powerful graphics editor around, but for simple things
it does the job, and the driver for S is already written.

Bill
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