[metapost] Elegant interactive environment for Metapost / metafont?

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Mon Mar 25 17:42:13 CET 2013


On 25 March 2013 12:33, William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com> wrote:
> I'd really like to see a program which was a true front-end, and interactive where one could:
>
> - draw something in the display window and have it instantiated as METAPOST code in a text window
> - edit the text window and have the display window up-date
>
> ideally it would have a nice drawing interface which would honour Bézier curve drawing as implemented in FreeHand.

http://www.metaflop.com approaches this, and is free software on github.

Who is interested in writing such software? I may be able to fund
metaflop or a similar HTML5 effort.



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