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From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Best way to make/add tech diagrams/graphics?
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 11:40:17 -0500
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To: Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
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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