Re: Back & Forth - A programming tale in graphic detail

Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> writes:
[Postscript]

Didn't
feel like I could quickly get that one going, so I moved to the next
option. And yes, I immediately fell in love with SVG.
>
Of course I don't think it's impossible to get things going in PS, the
question is - how much time do I want to put into it? Especially if I
got the functionality of vector graphics covered.

Exactly the reason why I have never looked into SVG.  I already knew
PostScript years before SVG was released.

One of the big benefits of Postscript is that it is a full-blown
programming language, not just a graphics description language.  E.g.,
when doing a graph that shows some of my measurement results, I put
all the measurement results in, and then select from these
measurements the data relevant for the graph, and display them as
appropriate.  E.g., Figures 8-12 of
<https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/00lipics/lipics-vol313-ecoop2024/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.14/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.14.pdf>
all include the same data, it's just what's selected and displayed
that's different.

You can find some graphs for getting started in
<https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/eps-gallery/>.

- anton
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