[texhax] New book on doing figures with PostScript

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

[Apologies: a finger fumble sent a partial message a moment ago that
will probably confuse list readers, sigh...]

Most readers of this list have had to deal with figures in documents.

There is a new book out that provides a tutorial on PostScript and
graphics, and even gets into homogeneous coordinates, 2D and 3D
drawing, Sutherland-Hodgman clipping, Bizier and B-spline curves, and
refers a bit to The METAFONT Book, METAPOST, and GIMP:

@String{pub-CAMBRIDGE           = "Cambridge University Press"}
@String{pub-CAMBRIDGE:adr       = "Cambridge, UK"}

@Book{Casselman:2005:MIM,
  author =       "Bill Casselman",
  title =        "Mathematical illustrations: a manual of geometry and
                 {PostScript}",
  publisher =    pub-CAMBRIDGE,
  address =      pub-CAMBRIDGE:adr,
  pages =        "xviii + 318",
  year =         "2005",
  ISBN =         "0-521-83921-1 (hardback), 0-521-54788-1 (paperback)",
  ISBN-13 =      "978-0-521-83921-1 (hardback), 978-0-521-54788-8
                 (paperback)",
  LCCN =         "QA76.73.P67 C37 2004",
  bibdate =      "Sun Sep 18 10:20:38 MDT 2005",
  bibsource =    "z3950.loc.gov:7090/Voyager",
  price =        "US\$39.99 (paperback), US\$90.00 (hardback)",
  URL =          "ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/etext/gutenberg/;
                 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam051/2004045886.html;
                 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam041/2004045886.html;
                 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam041/2004045886.html",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  subject =      "PostScript (Computer program language)",
}

It also makes extensive use of ghostscript.

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