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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2010 Jul 13, 09:52 -0700
Wolfgang,
Indeed a nice piece of work. What do you plan to do about the scales? I have been experimenting with using the Postscript language, that is native to many printers, to generate scales that retain the look and the feel of the classical Bygraves. I attach a pdf file showing an example of the output (Note: on the screen at low magnifications the lines may appear jagged but this is an artifact). Although Postscript is a fairly low level language, and therefore a pain in the neck to write and debug, the code is fairly configurable, making it a simple matter to generate scales for both cylindrical and flat (Gary Lapook) Bygraves. At this stage it is a work in progress,
Regards,
Robin Stuart
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