From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell Adams Subject: Re: Best diagram, image software? Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 16:06:21 +0200 Message-ID: <20161004140621.GK13639@cardamom.adamsinfoserv.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51559) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brQNh-0006Ng-0v for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:07:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brQNc-0007jX-Lh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:07:39 -0400 Received: from cat.maple.relay.mailchannels.net ([23.83.214.31]:31233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brQNc-000795-96 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:07:36 -0400 Received: from relay.mailchannels.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.mailchannels.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AF66A20E5 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 14:06:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kefka.asoshared.com (ip-10-107-69-155.us-west-2.compute.internal [10.107.69.155]) by relay.mailchannels.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4519CA20B5 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 14:06:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 5ed25635.cm-7-3b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.210.86.53]:56259 helo=localhost) by kefka.asoshared.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1brQMS-0002g3-8n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:06:24 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I make topology diagrams with yEd, and export to PDF for inclusion in my Latex PDF reports. On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 09:11:49AM -0400, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > I know lots of you use Emacs and org mode to prepare scholarly books and > papers, either doing the HTML or, more probably, the Latex export. > Question: Let's say I want to produce a math text with > Emacs/org-mode/Latex. What is the best way to make diagrams and images? > I've seen things like Inkscape and LibreOffice Draw. But then there is > Gnuplot and Tikz. Yes, what Tikz does seems optimal, but the learning curve > is a year's sabbatical. Just wondering what you people are using to do your > images. > > LB ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3