From: ckelty ckelty <ckelty@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: best ways to generate simple diagrams?
Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 12:12:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lfzjxur5.fsf@addr241.net185.lifesci.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN_Dec_zGiAJwPdiFNM_Z8=rQs-2=Y_tq83Ug2k02X6=tt+QkQ@mail.gmail.com>
Matt,
Did you already decide against graphviz? Admittedly it is only
graphs and not "diagrams"... but it's very powerful and there is
art in using a simple tool to make your life complex :)
#+BEGIN_SRC dot :file test-dot.png :exports results
digraph D {
Humanities -> {"Computing Tools and Methodologies"}
{"Computing Tools and Methodologies"} -> Humanities
}
#+END_SRC
#+RESULTS:
[[file:test-dot.png]]
ck
Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
> So, I'm finding more and more that I want to include simple
> diagrams in my
> course materials. At present I am generating them as svg's using
> Inkscape,
> but that feels really tiresome to me. I would much rather make
> them
> programmatically, preferably including the source code as an
> org-mode block.
>
> I thought ditaa would be the tool for this, but I cannot figure
> out how to
> do this work efficiently in ditaa. So for instance, I have this
> simple svg
> file (attached). It consists of two text-containing symmetrical
> rectangles
> separated by a bit of whitespace and connected by two curved
> arrows (one
> pointing from each of the rectangles to the other).
>
> Trying to replicate this in ditaa did not prove easy. Editing
> feels
> extremely labourious. Am I missing something? Is there a
> really good
> tutorial somehwere that I'm just not finding? Or is there maybe
> another
> tool I should be using instead?
>
> Thanks as always,
>
> Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-06 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-06 18:17 best ways to generate simple diagrams? Matt Price
2019-05-06 19:12 ` ckelty ckelty [this message]
2019-05-06 20:08 ` Heinz Tuechler
2019-05-07 11:25 ` Fraga, Eric
2019-05-07 17:22 ` Matt Price
2019-05-07 17:52 ` Fraga, Eric
2019-05-07 20:36 ` Matt Price
2019-05-07 20:51 ` Martin Schöön
2019-05-08 5:47 ` Fraga, Eric
2019-05-08 4:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
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