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Re: [Orgmode] [OT] what about asymptote ?


From: Nicolas Goaziou
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] [OT] what about asymptote ?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:48:43 +0200
User-agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/23.2 Mule/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO)

>>>>> Eric Schulte writes:

> I agree asymptote does generate beautiful figures (does it use the same
> pgf backend as tikz)?

Asymptote is unrelated to pgf. IMHO, it is far more powerful (i.e. 3D
functionality) but admittedly less integrated into LaTeX (that's why
org-babel is god sent).

> However my most common graphical need is to display data read in from an
> external file or from the command line, which I believe is orthogonal to
> the main asymptote functionality.

Asymptote can read and write text and XDR files. I'm not sure about the
command line thing.

Regards,

-- Nicolas



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