Re: graphics in scheme?

[hjstein at bfr dot co dot il (Harvey J. Stein)]

Dirk Herrmann <dirk@ida.ing.tu-bs.de> writes:

 > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 rm@mamma.varadinet.de wrote:
 > 
 > > Depending on what level of abstraction you need there's also
 > > 'functional postscript' (current release can be found at 
 > > ftp://ftp-swiss.ai.mit.edu/pub/su/scsh/contrib/fps/fps-1.0.tar.gz).
 > > I just spent some time 'porting' it to scheme (it was written
 > > for scheme48. BTW, is there any good documentation on scheme48
 > > besides what comes with the sources?), mainly as an exercise
 > > in understanding how to port from one module system to another
 > > so i can port the essence parser generator.
 > 
 > Thanks a lot for this very valuable hint.  However, I'm having problems
 > with fps-1.0 in combination with scsh-0.5.2 when I try to use
 > fonts.  Immediately after starting scsh and loading the fps package I do:
 > 
 > 
 > > (font "Helvetica" 12)
 > 
 > Error: exception
 >        (cdr '())
 > 
 > 
 > Hmm?  Have you also encountered this problem during your 'porting' and can
 > you give me a hint how to solve it?  (I also have contacted Olin Shivers
 > about it.)
 > 
 > Many thanks again:  This is exactly what I was looking for (if I get the
 > font thingy to work :-)

I have some examples at home.  I'll try to send them to you.

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Harvey Stein
Bloomberg LP
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