WENDY MCKAY
California Institute of Technology
wgm@cds.caltech.edu
and
ROSS MOORE
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
ross@zeus.mpce.mq.edu.au
Abstract:
This presentation describes a system for placing labels on included
graphics in a way that does not require that the user be concerned
with explicit lengths or coordinates. The full system was developed
specifically for use on Macintosh computers but, due to its
modularity, can be used with other systems as well.
The WARMreader (read `Wendy And Ross', selecting either for the `M') macro package reads symbolic information from a file, indicating the location of specially marked points to which labels are to be attached. It also provides a link to the XY-pic macros, which allow arbitrary labels to be attached to these marked points.
Of course, one also needs a method to create the files that are read by WARMreader. On the Macintosh, this is provided by a special plug-in to David Rand's Zephyr application. By simply clicking the mouse on the desired points, a file is built to contain all the required information.