I need some volunteers to beta-test for me

[Herbert Gintis]

Dear Y and Y'ers,
         A few months back people on this list asked whether there is a
what-you-see-is-what-you-get program for designing figures in TeX and
LaTeX. The short answer was "no". PSTricks is great, but you have to design
on paper, and you can't preview the results until you generate the ps or
pdf file.
         Well, I wrote such a program a couple of years ago for
Windows,  for my own use in mathematical model building and agent-based
simulation (I used it for two books and many articles in economics,
biology, sociology, and anthropology).
         I'm just finishing a rough public version for beta-testing, and
I'd like some volunteers who might find the program useful, to test it for me.
         My first round of beta-testers should be Y and Y users, since
that's the platform on which I developed it. It should work on any LaTeX
system, but I'd rather test it on Y and Y first, for obvious reasons (it
will also work with plain TeX, but I haven't written the macros for this yet).
         The program produces circles, ellipses, lines, bezier curves,
arrows, vectors, dotted and dashed version of the above, and integrates
text with the figures. The result can be viewed in DVIWINDO. The program
allows you to expand, contract, resize, rotate, and move objects, as well
as link and unlink objects and save reusable objects in a repository. There
are also help files for installation and use (though it is still a bit
thin...).

Best,

Herbert Gintis


Herbert Gintis
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