Re: LUG: Scientific drawing software for Linux - Wed, 19 May 2010 10:14:46 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Scientific drawing software for Linux

From : Daniel Underwood <daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 19 May 2010 10:14:46 -0400

I think you misunderstood me. I write LaTeX code everday using
Winefish source editor. I'm very comfortable working with latex
code. What Alex was referring to is not putting graphics in a latex
document--that's easy enough--but using various packages to draw
diagrams in code. And *that* is what I'm saying can be cumbersome and
unproductive (for me).

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Daniel Underwood
North Carolina State University
MSc - Operations Research
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On May 19, 2010, at 2:25 AM, Kevin Hunter <hunteke@earlham.[redacted]> wrote:

> At 1:00am -0400 Wed, 19 May 2010, Daniel Underwood wrote:
>> I dunno about that. It's much easier including PDF images in LaTeX
>> documents. Really complex graphics can be quite a pain to construct
>> in
>> LaTeX code.
>
> For those of us not as ... textually inclined in regards to LaTeX,
> you can begin to cheat fairly well with programs like LyX. KyX has
> progressed to a point that as long as you get into the habit of
> saving with a fair amount of frequency (it's not quite vim-stable),
> you can create a layout you like. Then take a look at the output of
> LyX and you can manipulate it however you'd like. After getting the
> scaffolding set up in this manner, it becomes "trivial" to include
> graphics of an open nature (png, pdf, svg, eps) in a scriptable
> fashion.
>
> Kevin