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... but the text in the boxes still has a weird baseline. Sorry to spoil the fun, but if you just invested a few hours to learn how to work with Inkscape, you w

by rerx 8y ago

... but the text in the boxes still has a weird baseline. Sorry to spoil the fun, but if you just invested a few hours to learn how to work with Inkscape, you would become much more efficient sooner. At some point during my PhD I accepted that LaTeX is not the right tool for graphical work. Stubbornly I was still texing my slides with Beamer, but half their content was figures prepared in Inkscape.

ygra 8y ago
For this kind of thing, something like yEd [1], specialized for graphs should work nicely as well. [1] https://www.yworks.com/yed-live/#file=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ygra/8ee707e7f41d4fa898f34284d982f809/raw/Untitled%20Document https://www.yworks.com/yed-live/#file=https://gist.githubuse...
jessaustin 8y ago
...weird baseline. Is that caused by the tails of the letters "y" and "p"? The one box that doesn't have a tailed letter, "base", looks fine. There should be a way to tell the system to use the normal font baseline instead of something it can figure out geometrically.
- rerx 8y ago
  I'm sure there is a way to tell TikZ about that. In Inkscape you would just shift-click all words and click the baseline icon in the align-and-distribute panel. The thing with preparing figures is that you want to iterate rapidly on small changes. That works so much better without a mental context switch between code and result and without having to wait for the compilation to finish (significant if the figure is embedded in a large document). If you had to prepare hundreds of very similar diagrams that all need to look great, then I could understand the point of using TikZ for such a job. Typesetting document text is different because LaTeX does a great job by default.
blt 8y ago
Yeah, I use beamer for (text + math + plot)-only content but as soon as any video or animation is needed, gotta switch to ppt or keynote
kashyapc 8y ago
Hmm, I haven't even noticed the "weird baseline" (what is so weird about it?). On Inkscape, another colleague also suggested it. I'll give it a try next week. My main use of LaTex (with Beamer) + TikZ is for not too complicated diagrams for presentations.

by rerx 8y ago

ygra 8y ago

For this kind of thing, something like yEd [1], specialized for graphs should work nicely as well. [1] https://www.yworks.com/yed-live/#file=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ygra/8ee707e7f41d4fa898f34284d982f809/raw/Untitled%20Document https://www.yworks.com/yed-live/#file=https://gist.githubuse...

jessaustin 8y ago

...weird baseline. Is that caused by the tails of the letters "y" and "p"? The one box that doesn't have a tailed letter, "base", looks fine. There should be a way to tell the system to use the normal font baseline instead of something it can figure out geometrically.

rerx 8y ago
I'm sure there is a way to tell TikZ about that. In Inkscape you would just shift-click all words and click the baseline icon in the align-and-distribute panel. The thing with preparing figures is that you want to iterate rapidly on small changes. That works so much better without a mental context switch between code and result and without having to wait for the compilation to finish (significant if the figure is embedded in a large document). If you had to prepare hundreds of very similar diagrams that all need to look great, then I could understand the point of using TikZ for such a job. Typesetting document text is different because LaTeX does a great job by default.

blt 8y ago

Yeah, I use beamer for (text + math + plot)-only content but as soon as any video or animation is needed, gotta switch to ppt or keynote

kashyapc 8y ago

Hmm, I haven't even noticed the "weird baseline" (what is so weird about it?). On Inkscape, another colleague also suggested it. I'll give it a try next week. My main use of LaTex (with Beamer) + TikZ is for not too complicated diagrams for presentations.