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0 pointsplesn17y ago0 comments

LaTeX makes it easy to make something clean out of a bunch of text.

But when graphics enter, I'm easily stuck loosing a lot of time. For now, i tend to use tikz and will learn Inkscape, after bad experiences with dia, metapost, etc. Sure under MacOS Omnigraffle produces great output...

Good documents are not only text...

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scott_s17y ago· 2 in thread

Graphics are orthogonal to a Latex document. You specify where to find the graphic, what format it's in and how to orient it. Making the graphic is outside of the Latex process, which I am fine with.

All papers I make for publication have data graphs and figures aplenty, and it would still take me longer with Word.

plesnOP17y ago

I agree that including figures is a strong part of LaTeX, I believe, as you have good control over it. What takes times, is drawing a diagram to illustrate something.

Resorting to external tools and inserting is OK, but you often don't have the same visual quality as the rest of the document. Here I don't know many really good tools. That's why people still take a lot of time with pstricks, TikZ and the likes!

eru17y ago

I recently discovered graphviz to layout my graphs. (Graphs as in graph theory.)

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