2016-10-04 15:11 GMT+02:00 Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>:

> 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.
>

Tikz (+stackoverflow to cut on the sabbatical year :-) ) most of the time.
I'm not good at drawing with Inkscape.
Emacs can be setup to preview tikz pictures in the Org buffer, which helps
a lot.

Fabrice