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If you need highly complicated ones Primavera is the de facto standard. However, read what Tufte has to say about them first: Most of the Gantt charts are anal
by yannis 16y ago
If you need highly complicated ones Primavera is the de facto standard. However, read what Tufte has to say about them first:
Most of the Gantt charts are analytically thin, too simple, and lack substantive detail. The charts should be more intense. At a minimum, the charts should be annotated--for example, with to-do lists at particular points on the grid. About half the charts show their thin data in heavy grid prisons. For these charts the main visual statement is the administrative grid prison, not the actual tasks contained by the grid.
See the discussion at Tufte http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000076 http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
I do mine using LaTeXe!
- ddoonie 16y agoDo you have a 'how to' for creating Gantt charts with Latex?? I use it for my papers, but pretty much do the charts in excel..
- ddoonie 16y agoJust found this http://mirror.unl.edu/ctan/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-gantt/pst-gantt-doc.pdf http://mirror.unl.edu/ctan/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-gan... and this http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php for those interested in Latex Gantt charts.
- yannis 16y agoYou can use a package Martin-Kumm's is the easiest or you can use pgf/TikZ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/ and creative from prmitives. Personally, I wrote some macro's to get what I wanted. I simplify mine as much as possible and use a very light grey vertical grid for background. Whatever you do don't spoil a good write-up with anything Excel! The pgf/TikZ package is the best graphics package I have used. Just the fact that it exists is a monument to TeX, Knuth and Lamport.
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