[pdftex] Better {picture} environment drawing with pdflatex? (eepic-like)

[Michael Krbek]

In cz.muni.redir.pdftex, you wrote:
>At 11:37 AM 4/22/2002 +0200, Willemijn Vermaat wrote:
>
>>I hope that there is a solution to this outside of Context.  Please let me 
>>know if you know of anything (or if you could help come up with a solution).
>>
>>(Please email me if you have an answer.)
>
>the 'context' way also works in latex, that is, it did work a year ago, 
>given that some code was loaded; as far as i know those who played with it 
>have switched to metapost, so there was no need for writing some latex 
>wrapper; i have no time now to look into it.
>
>Hans
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Use metapost in conjunction with the latex package mfpic.

Michael Krbek