Re: make a drawing with Emacs

[Emanuel Berg]

Yuri Khan wrote:

>> I want to write code (data) and then have it
>> translate into a drawing. See the original post.
>> So no GUI, no actual "drawing". CAD doesn't sound
>> like that, but maybe I'm wrong?
>
> Hm, why not just write SVG?

I think SVG seems like a really good alternative.
I can't find a complete syntax reference tho. This is
the best page I found so far:

  https://flaviocopes.com/svg/

The .svg extension in Emacs gives me the major mode
`nxml-mode'

  nXML mode defined in ‘nxml-mode.el’:
  Major mode for editing XML.

So a file test.svg:

  <svg width="10" height="10">
    <rect
        x="0"
        y="0"
        width="10"
        height="10"
        fill="blue"
        />
  </svg>

works well! Only not in feh(1), my image viewer [1] -
but with

  $ convert test.svg test.png

I get a PNG!

Great :D


[1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/SOFTWARE

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