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Subject: Re: The Juno-2 Constraint-Based Drawing Editor
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> Is the source for Juno (-1 or -2) available? (Is the source for any
> constraint-based drawing editor available, excepting METAFONT and
> CoolDraw?)

Unfortunately, the source for Juno-2 is not publicly available. In the
future, we may make the binary executable for Juno-2 available for
various architectures. If we do, I will post a message on
comp.constraints announcing their availability.

MetaPost, John Hobby's extension of Knuth's METAFONT with PostScript
output and features for rendering text as well as graphics, is now in
the public domain. I've attached a message from John Hobby with
details on how to obtain MetaPost.

- Allan

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From: hobby@research.att.com
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 95 16:27 EST
Subject: MetaPost
Message-ID: <9501052141.AA29480@inet-gw-2.pa.dec.com>

This message is directed to everyone who has contacted me about the
MetaPost graphics language.  Recall that it is based on Knuth's METAFONT but
with PostScript output and features for dealing with text as well as graphics.
The user's manual and auxiliary documentation have been available for some
time as   ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/att/cs/cstr/162.ps.Z
and       ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/att/cs/cstr/164.ps.Z

AT&T has now decided to place MetaPost in the public domain.
This means that the latest version (Version 0.62) is now available as
       ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/research/metapost.tar.Z
It is also mirrored in the CTAN archives as
	/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/metapost.tar.gz

It requires the Web2c version of TeX and Rokicki's dvips.
It does not use the kpathsea library (which now comes with web2c TeX).
Rokicki's dvips is needed because it has special support for using
downloaded TeX fonts in included figures.

There is also a DOS version of MetaPost which I am planning to put
up as soon as I get confirmation from its author.  When the DOS version
becomes available, it will be placed in the directories given above.

- John Hobby

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