From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Best way to make/add tech diagrams/graphics?
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 11:40:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft8ZyREkB7jNqP64meXfFnW0hz9pxNOWeBjH4E06zh9Tbg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFAhFSVt0RFUtUcdZ7ujhBqSWQ-vBZat-W-mECTMQrEAF+h+cA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to embed images into my running org file -- for eventual conversion
> to Latex or html. These would be simple diagram-style pictures such as math
> or technical diagrams that cannot be done with gnuplot or other
> formula-to-picture conversion software.
>
> Examples:
> http://www.library.utoronto.ca/see/SEED/Vol5-1/Queiroz_Emmeche_El-Hani_files/image003.gif
> http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/irvine/SBGN_process_description_cropped.jpg
>
A few that come to mind for this sort of thing:
- ditaa: http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
- graphviz/dot: http://www.graphviz.org/
- my personal favorite, but quite the learning curve, it PFG/TikZ:
http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/
All are possible with babel blocks.
Good luck!
John
> I know emacs can draw some things, but I'd probably need better renditions.
> So how does emacs/org handle such images and what sort of software (I'm on
> Ubuntu) is available for making such drawings and diagrams? What about
> software like "Processing"? Having Processing code embedded that then
> produced images would be great.
>
> Borgauf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-17 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-17 15:13 Best way to make/add tech diagrams/graphics? Lawrence Bottorff
2013-05-17 15:17 ` Russell Adams
2013-05-17 16:40 ` John Hendy [this message]
2013-05-17 23:09 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-05-17 23:14 ` John Hendy
2013-05-21 8:19 ` Christopher Witte
2013-05-17 17:06 ` Nick Dokos
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