[sdiy] dial graduations

[Andre Majorel]

On 2002-05-28 11:26 -0700, Don Tillman wrote:

> Below is a PostScript program for drawing three dial scales, complete
> with center crosses.  See, it's easy.

Fascinating. Works fine in gv, even looks hackable.

> Note that there are several very cool features about this approach.
> It's accurate in the sense that you can say "I want this switch
> *here*", where here is the measurement you specifcy with respect to any
> other point you specify.  You can parameterize stuff, so that if you
> decide later to change the style of something you only have to change
> one parameter.  And you have complete control over everything.

Yes, I'm already sold on the idea of vector graphics and
text-format source files, Don. :-) I'd take that over a WYSIYWYG
tool any day ; I usually write my docs in LaTeX or troff, and my
HTML with vi. PostScript has been on my list of things to learn
for years, along with a couple hundred other things, like analogue
electronics. ;-) Thanks for the snippet, it helps decreasing the
learning curve.

Coincidentally, yesterday I was working on a kind of pscat program
(to concatenate N DSC-conformant PostScript files into one big
N-page PostScript document).

-- 
André Majorel <amajorel at teaser.fr>
http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/