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Re: [Groff] E/R-diagrams with pic


From: Deri James
Subject: Re: [Groff] E/R-diagrams with pic
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:26:02 +0000
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On Thursday 20 Jan 2011 23:25:32 Ralph Graulich wrote:
> Hello troffers!
> 
> Did someone try to layout E/R diagrams with pic?
> Several years ago I built a very rudimentary toolchain, which read one or
> more config files, took the table definitions from the database's data
> dictionary, sends them through a large awk script, which did the
> conversion to pic markup and layed out an E/R diagram, albeit a very
> simple one. To my pity it seems the scripts are lost.
> 
> Are there any read-to-use solutions using pic+troff or maybe just pic
> macros for the basic elements of an E/R diagram? Or do I rather have to
> resort to write the whole script again?
> 
> Best regards
> Ralph

Hi Ralph,

Graphvis is very good at things like this, and Ervis is specifically for E/R 
diagrams. 

<http://www.ab.auone-net.jp/~simply/en/works/erviz/about.html>

Cheers 

Deri


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