From: Heinz Tuechler <tuechler@gmx.at>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: best ways to generate simple diagrams?
Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 21:08:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <174cf109-590b-6f16-8db9-5353262028c5@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN_Dec_zGiAJwPdiFNM_Z8=rQs-2=Y_tq83Ug2k02X6=tt+QkQ@mail.gmail.com>
Matt Price wrote/hat geschrieben on/am 06.05.2019 19:17:
> So, I'm finding more and more that I want to include simple diagrams in my
> course materials. At present I am generating them as svg's using Inkscape,
> but that feels really tiresome to me. I would much rather make them
> programmatically, preferably including the source code as an org-mode block.
>
> I thought ditaa would be the tool for this, but I cannot figure out how to
> do this work efficiently in ditaa. So for instance, I have this simple svg
> file (attached). It consists of two text-containing symmetrical rectangles
> separated by a bit of whitespace and connected by two curved arrows (one
> pointing from each of the rectangles to the other).
>
> Trying to replicate this in ditaa did not prove easy. Editing feels
> extremely labourious. Am I missing something? Is there a really good
> tutorial somehwere that I'm just not finding? Or is there maybe another
> tool I should be using instead?
>
> Thanks as always,
>
> Matt
>
Maybe plantuml (http://plantuml.com/en/) is useful, e.g.
#+begin_src plantuml :file hum-cs-interface-test.svg
skinparam ArrowColor Blue
node "Humanities" as H #DeepSkyBlue
node "Computing\n Tools and\n Methodologies" as N #DeepSkyBlue
N =l=> H
H =r=> N
#+end_src
best regards,
Heinz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-06 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-06 18:17 best ways to generate simple diagrams? Matt Price
2019-05-06 19:12 ` ckelty ckelty
2019-05-06 20:08 ` Heinz Tuechler [this message]
2019-05-07 11:25 ` Fraga, Eric
2019-05-07 17:22 ` Matt Price
2019-05-07 17:52 ` Fraga, Eric
2019-05-07 20:36 ` Matt Price
2019-05-07 20:51 ` Martin Schöön
2019-05-08 5:47 ` Fraga, Eric
2019-05-08 4:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
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