On 2003-09-19, 23:11 GMT, James Frye wrote:
> I can't work with anything but a black background for more than a few
> minutes at most.  Second, I'd like to be able to draw in native units,
> not have to scale everything by hand to paper units.  If I'm drawing
> house plans, I want to work in feet & inches; if I'm drawing nerve
> cells, I want to work in micrometers - either way, the computer should
> do the work of fitting the drawing to the paper.

And what about non-WYSIWYG way? I mean either things like epic in LaTeX,
or directly METAPOST (which is my preferred way of doing my own
drawings -- Sketch is better for manipulation with existing EPS files).

Matej

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