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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 (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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