Re: LUG: Scientific drawing software for Linux - Wed, 19 May 2010 02:25:01 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Scientific drawing software for Linux

From : Kevin Hunter <hunteke@earlham.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 19 May 2010 02:25:01 -0400

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

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