Reminds of using pic (e.g. [0]) in the mid 80's to create typeset the images in my thesis (which was written using vi). It was possible to programmatically gene

Reminds of using pic (e.g. [0]) in the mid 80's to create typeset the images in my thesis (which was written using vi). It was possible to programmatically generate complex images with repeating elements. [0] http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk/Glamorgan/gaius/web/pic-3.html http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk/Glamorgan/gaius/web/pic-3.ht...