Re: best ways to generate simple diagrams?

[ckelty ckelty <ckelty@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