Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description
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Name: diagramf
Author: Jeremy Gibbons <jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> and Alan Jeffrey <alanje@cogs.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 2.6.1992
Last changed in archive: 1993/01/12
Version: 1.1
Archive-path: macros/latex209/contrib/diagramf
Description: 
 The diagramf
 interface for importing diagrams drawn in MetaFont
 to (La)TeX. In the DIAGRAMF package, TeX and MF communicate
 by auxiliary files, in a similar fashion to the MG
 TeX-PostScript interface (`Problems on the TeX/PostScript/graphics
 interface', TUGboat 11(3)). When you run MF on an
 *.MF file, it reads in a related *.DIM file, which
 specifies the dimensions of all the boxes. From this,
 MF calculates where to put each label, and outputs
 a .DIA file, containing TeX code. Similarly, when
 TeX encounters the instruction \diagramfile{*} it
 loads in *.DIA and produces *.DIM. And so we can
 have our MF cake and eat it in TeX.