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["David G. Wonnacott" <address@hidden>]

Hi TeXmacs folks,

I am in the middle of my first attempt at drawing some simple figures 
with the TeXmacs drawing editor, and thought I'd send a combined 
feedback/question e-mail.

So far, I'm having good luck learning to use it by just playing with it. 
I have been able to create a drawing inside a table inside a floating 
figure, and put words and arrows together in that drawing in the way I 
want to. I was briefly confused about how to edit the text within the 
drawing, but double-clicking seems to do the trick. So much for my 
question :-)

The one thing I find confusing is that there doesn't seem to be any 
visual feedback regarding which tools I currently have selected. As far 
as I can tell, the bottom line of icons at the top of the page looks the 
same after I click on the circle drawing tool over the line-drawing 
tool; furthermore I don't see feedback about which tool options are on, 
for example whether I have arrowheads turned on and on about to draw 
lines. This is with TeXmacs version 1.0.7.3 running on Ubuntu 10.10 (I 
think), using a remote X session on a Mac (so it is possible that this 
is just some kind of X11 weirdness).

I will let you know if I have any serious trouble with it, but for now I 
think I am much happier using it then editing with inkscape and trying 
to import my work. For one thing, I would've had many, many small .svg 
files.

Dave Wonnacott