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 -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488