From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremie Juste Subject: Re: Best diagram, image software? Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 22:14:42 +0200 Message-ID: <86a8eio8nh.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brt4K-0005UV-QS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 16:45:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brt4G-00018u-Km for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 16:45:35 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=48432 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brt4G-00017q-BA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 16:45:32 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1brt3p-0003w7-0u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 22:45:05 +0200 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 Hello, Lawrence Bottorff writes: > 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. > I'm very impressed by tikz and gnuplot. I use both of them inefficiently sometimes trying to understand some code here and there. There documentation are very good though. It would be great for a sabatical in my opinion. Because I didn't take the time to learn tikz and gnuplot, these days I mostly make graphics with R and ggplot2 though. The advantage is that in addition of the good documentation there is a quite a number of people using it so it more likely that some people have encountered your problem before or has a solution to your problem. So you can find solution more quickly I believe. Yet this is an easy way out because I think taking the time to learn how the stuff really works give you some perspective. Best regards, Jeremie