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[Nicolas Ratier <address@hidden>]

> I would like to learn little bit more about drawing with TeXmacs.
> I assume Dratex is a good idea to begin but even on google
> can nit find a homepage or tutorial or docs concerning dratex.

Dratex is for structured drawing like:
 * PIE CHARTS:
 * XY CHARTS:
 * BAR CHARTS:
 * SPREAD DIAGRAMS:
 * GRID DIAGRAMS:
 * TREE DIAGRAMS:
It is close to XY-pic, I use both of them to draw tree or diagram,
or any mathematical related diagram. Don't think to draw nice house
with them !!!

Some examples are given in
http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/graphics/dratex/

Or directly in the web site of the author of the DraTeX and AlDraTeX 
packages:
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/tpf/html/README.html

> I the TeXmacs GUI i can call dratex enfine, so i assume its
> installed (?) on my system but i did not found a package ¨dratex¨

You can find a working example in
YOUR_PATH_TO_TEXMACS_SOURCE/TeXmacs-1.0.6.9-src/plugins/dratex/examples/texts

The best documentation about DraTeX can be found in his book:
TEX and LaTEX: Drawing and Literate Programming. Gurari,
E., McGraw-Hill, 1994. (A manual for DraTeX, AlDraTex, ProTeX, and 
AlProTeX.)

> thank you for any hint

You're welcome
Nicolas