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Hi,

1. How do I make a custom draw command in metapost?
I wish to make a command similar to drawarrow, lets say drawpolaris.
drawpolaris will be an arrow with a builtin star, like -*->, a centimeter long, to indicate the heading of polaris on paper.

2. Started looking at the mplibdir source. this ...

Thank you, Ijon. went straight from the ToC to Ch82 to figure out scales, like Till mentions in section 1.6, enum1. :)

Will be reading for some days, including metapost and tb51turt too.

Someone must have definitely built a floor plan in LateX (and one of these packages) in all these decades. I ...

It's a big book with the axis scales all way in chapter "82", mostly geared towards scientific visualisation. reading it; why is it called TikZ? (ticks have venom you know)

Looking for an easy way to make architectural diagrams, just a few rooms in a home to start with. An (abbreviated) textual ...

Hi Stefan,

Please comment on FF DIN (1995) for a physics book. also, San Francisco Pro (2014) and Helvetica Neue (1983), these fonts for regular text that may be combined. Seems like Apple switched again to Helvetica Neue this year.

Feels a nice sans serif font for text would look good in ay kind ...

Gentlemen,

How does one make a line in latex with a sense of scale, unit and direction?

Need to draw some architectural lines,
1. with a unit, like inch (or millimetre)
2. with a scale, like 1:48 (or 1:50 in metric)
3. lines that can be added, like turtle graphics
4. with a geographical ...