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From: Heinz Tuechler <tuechler@gmx.at>
Subject: Re: best ways to generate simple diagrams?
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Matt Price wrote/hat geschrieben on/am 06.05.2019 19:17:
> 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
>
Maybe plantuml (http://plantuml.com/en/) is useful, e.g.


#+begin_src plantuml :file hum-cs-interface-test.svg
skinparam ArrowColor Blue
node "Humanities" as H #DeepSkyBlue
node "Computing\n Tools and\n Methodologies" as N #DeepSkyBlue

N =l=> H
H =r=> N

#+end_src

best regards,

Heinz