./wip/asymptote, Powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical drawings

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 3.01, Package name: asymptote-3.01, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language that provides a
natural coordinate-based framework for technical drawing. Labels and equations
are typeset with LaTeX, for high-quality PostScript output. A major advantage of
Asymptote over other graphics packages is that it is a programming language, as
opposed to just a graphics program. Features of Asymptote:

# provides a portable standard for typesetting mathematical figures,
just as TeX/LaTeX has become the standard for typesetting equations;

# generates and embeds 3D vector PRC graphics into PDF files;

# inspired by MetaPost, with a much cleaner, powerful C++-like
programming syntax and floating-point numerics;

# runs on all major platforms (UNIX, MacOS, Microsoft Windows);

# mathematically oriented (e.g. rotation of vectors by complex multiplication);

# LaTeX typesetting of labels (for document consistency);

# uses simplex method and deferred drawing to solve overall size
constraint issues between fixed-sized objects (labels and arrowheads)
and objects that should scale with figure size;
...and more!


Required to run:
[print/teTeX3-bin] [graphics/freeglut] [math/gsl] [devel/boehm-gc]

Required to build:
[lang/perl5] [pkgtools/x11-links] [devel/gmake]

Master sites:

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   2009-08-22 01:03:31 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (5) | Package removed
Log message:
Remove asymptote, imported to pkgsrc/graphics.
   2009-08-22 01:01:17 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (5) 
Log message:
Update to 1.84, changes since 1.56 too many to list here, see
http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog

Various improvements.
   2009-05-20 02:58:40 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (75) | Package updated
Log message:
Recursive ABI depends update and PKGREVISION bump for readline-6.0 shlib
major change.

Reported by Robert Elz in PR 41345.