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Re: [O] best ways to generate simple diagrams?
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Fraga, Eric |
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Re: [O] best ways to generate simple diagrams? |
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Tue, 7 May 2019 11:25:52 +0000 |
On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 14:17, Matt Price wrote:
> 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.
You have had recommendations for graphviz (dot etc.) and plantuml
already. Those are very good suggestions and I use them all the
time. For more general drawings, and given that you want something
programmatic, I would also suggest tikz (in LaTeX) as it's very powerful
(but then harder to do some simple things that graphiz/plantuml will do
very easily).
#+begin_export latex
\begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=4cm,minimum size=2cm]
\node[draw,fill=blue!20!white] (humanities) {Humanities};
\node[draw,fill=blue!20!white] (tools) [right of=humanities]
{\parbox{3cm}{Computing \\ Tools and \\ Methodologies}}
edge [->,out=270,in=270,very thick,red] (humanities)
edge [<-,out=90,in=90,very thick,red] (humanities);
\end{tikzpicture}
#+end_export
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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.3-327-g3375f0
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