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Re: On the difficulty of making building instructions
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Sat, 10 Feb 2001 15:06:22 GMT
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> writes:

Personally I use vi+ldglite for this (yes, I know I should swap vi
for Emacs)

You mean that you manually code the LDraw DAT files?  Wow, I'm
impressed!

Using Emacs+LDraw-mode would give the added advantage of colour coding
via font-lock, which gives instant visual confirmation of the
correctness of the syntax.  It also gives some visual aid as it makes it
easier to see which digits are the x, y and z-coordinates, as well as
the diagonals of the rotation matrix.  Here's a screenshot:

    http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/technic/ldraw-mode/screenshot.png

It also adds LEdit style rotation and some other features.

Fredrik



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On the difficulty of making building instructions: Last sunday I spent most of the day (except for a few hours out in the snow) showing my cousins how to make - or should I say _draw_ - building instructions on a computer. Personally I use (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)  

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