From: CSBVAX::CSBVAX::MRGATE::"SMTP::CRVAX.SRI.COM::RELAY-INFO-VAX" 19-FEB-1989 17:35 To: MRGATE::"ARISIA::EVERHART" Subj: K. Sankara Rao's message regarding TeX/LaTeX Received: From KL.SRI.COM by CRVAX.SRI.COM with TCP; Sun, 19 FEB 89 13:53:17 PDT Received: from mis.arizona.edu (misvax.mis.arizona.edu) by KL.SRI.COM with TCP; Sun, 19 Feb 89 13:39:31 PST Received: by mis.arizona.edu id <2020173D131@mis.arizona.edu> ; Sun, 19 Feb 89 14:42:32 MST Date: Sun, 19 Feb 89 14:35:05 MST From: Michelle likes me. I'm different. Subject: K. Sankara Rao's message regarding TeX/LaTeX To: info-vax@kl.sri.com X-VMS-Mail-To: JNET%"nu043109@ndsuvm1" Message-ID: <890219143505.2020173D131@mis.arizona.edu> K. Rao asks about electrical circuits in TeX/LaTeX. The first answer is: this is info-vax, the proper place to ask such questions is The TeXhax digest. Here I quote directly, abridging: %%% The TeXhax digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %%% in cooperation with the UnixTeX distribution service at the %%% University of Washington %%% %%% Concerning subscriptions, address changes, unsubscribing: %%% BITNET: send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU %%% SUBSCRIBE TEXHAX %%% %%% All others: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu %%% Please be sure you send a valid internet address!! %%% in the form name@domain or name%routing@domain %%% and use the style of the Bitnet one-line message, so that %%% we can find your subscription request easily. %%% %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu The answer to the question is not readily available. A search through the 1987 and 1988 TeXhax reveals: ------------------------------ From: 2044MCCORMIC%MUCSD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu Date: Wed, 4 May 88 11:14 CDT Subject: TeX/LaTeX Circuit diagrams I'm inquiring if anyone has any knowledge or ideas on how one could do electrical and mechanical circuit schematics directly in a TeX/LaTeX wordprocessing sourcecode for directly `printing in' an engineering diagram, rather than doing them by hand after the final version has been ... stuff deleted ... Respectfully, Dale McCormick ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jul 88 08:09:25 CDT From: "George A Christensen" Subject: Electronic Font for Pictures Has anyone developed a font of electronic components that could be used with the Picture environment? Doing them all with lines and ovals takes too much memory and cpu time on our system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1988 10:57:03 CDT From: "Thomas J. Reid" Subject: Re: The best way to do pictures in TeX (a fascinating article in which Reid discusses how such a thing might be done, why it is and isn't a good idea, but doesn't admit to actually doing it. I leave the citation in case you want to look it up). Thomas Reid, Texas A&M University ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Aug 88 09:34:48 CDT From: Don Hosek Subject: RE: The best way to do pictures in TeX A few notes on Phil's note regarding drawing pictures for TeX using MF: (a bunch of text deleted, but the key part remains below:) ... (in TUGboat?) on the topic, and I've heard from people who have done this for circuit diagrams. As for the resolution used, one should use the resolution of the output device for the font when it is generated. ... (more stuff deleted, about two paragraphs worth) ... special base file along the lines of a LaTeX for MF. This fall, I may create one for electronic diagrams if I get the time. Also, it is a very important point that this still doesn't resolve the problem of importing graphics from other packages. ------------------------------ jms Joel M Snyder, Univ of Arizona Dep't of MIS, Tucson, AZ, 85721 BITNET: jms@arizmis Internet: jms@mis.arizona.edu Phone: 602.621.2748 "The 3 B's of Spring Break ... Beer, Beach, and Babes." - Miller Beer Ad