From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fabrice Popineau Subject: Re: Best diagram, image software? Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 15:52:21 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c124714cd82e1053e0a5f7f Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47903) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brQ9D-00022u-4G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:52:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brQ9C-00033L-By for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:52:43 -0400 Received: from mail-ua0-x236.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c08::236]:36686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brQ9C-000331-68 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:52:42 -0400 Received: by mail-ua0-x236.google.com with SMTP id r64so16338732uar.3 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 06:52:41 -0700 (PDT) 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: Lawrence Bottorff Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist --94eb2c124714cd82e1053e0a5f7f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 2016-10-04 15:11 GMT+02:00 Lawrence Bottorff : > 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 --94eb2c124714cd82e1053e0a5f7f Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


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 d= oing 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 w= ay to make diagrams and images? I've seen things like Inkscape and Libr= eOffice 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 t= he time.
I'm not good at drawing with Inkscape.
Ema= cs can be setup to preview tikz pictures in the Org buffer, which helps a l= ot.

Fabrice
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