From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: how to draw picture in org-mode ? Does it support tikz/pgf ? Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:53:19 -0400 Message-ID: <12174.1250247199@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <907065090908140022p728fc17el4fc3e2a02078c60f@mail.gmail.com> <2c75873c0908140103k2fd31e89s5870c8baeb9acb47@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MbuRP-0001M6-5S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:55:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MbuRK-0001LY-FQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:55:22 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40083 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MbuRK-0001LL-7c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:55:18 -0400 Received: from vms173015pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.15]:56085) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MbuRJ-00017R-Od for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:55:17 -0400 Received: from gamaville.dokosmarshall.org ([98.110.172.159]) by vms173015.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KOD004NN4WS1D12@vms173015.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:53:17 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: Message from Graham Smith of "Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:03:12 BST." <2c75873c0908140103k2fd31e89s5870c8baeb9acb47@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Graham Smith Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, waterloo Graham Smith wrote: > Something I, as a comparative beginner can answer :-) > > > how to draw picture in org-mode ? Does it support tikz/pgf ? > > Yes, I found it worked fine for me. I had a silly problem with page > margins (searchng the forum for tikz/pgf will find my recent posts), > that was my fault but other than that the flow charts and mindmaps I > have done work well. > Let me add a qualifier: if you try to preview the image, then it does not seem to work, but that seems to be a characteristic of tikz/pgf, rather than org-mode. Here's the experiment, should somebody care to try it: o Start with a simple picture - the one waterloo posted earlier in the month will do: ,---- | #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{tikz} | | * Draw | | \begin{tikzpicture} | \draw (0,0) -- (10,0); | \end{tikzpicture} `---- o Export it to LaTeX with C-c C-e l. o Process the latex file with pdflatex and view with xpdf - everything is fine. o Process the latex file with latex, producing a dvi file. View the dvi file with xdvi: the picture is missing (and I get a Ghostscript error.) o Process the dvi file to PS with dvips and view the resulting PS file: the picture is there. Since (I'm guessing) preview processes the dvi file with dvipng and since the dvi file seems to have some kind of problem, preview does not work. HTH, Nick