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by falsedan 3410 days ago
Sounds an awful lot like METAFONT.
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thechao 3410 days ago
The thing I absolutely miss the most from grad school is porting my advisor's whiteboard chicken scratch into parametric METAPOST graphics. It let us size & scope images to their target: posters, conference papers, slides, journal publications, etc.
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webmaven 3407 days ago
It does, doesn't it? There seems to be a fairly clear trail of inspiration from this and many similar ideas in the past.
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