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When I was at school I used markdown and converted to latex using pandoc. However I always drew all figures on a piece of paper with a date and number on it and

When I was at school I used markdown and converted to latex using pandoc. However I always drew all figures on a piece of paper with a date and number on it and then matched it with my notes. I couldn't find the right tool for this and I didn't think I'd be fast enough with inscape, but i guess if you really try it's possible. That's awesome but I wish this article released 5 years ago :) I wonder though, are there any alternatives to inscape in which you can draw graphs quickly?

bdamm 8y ago
The scripted diagramming space is very weak. It's strange to me, because I think having an expressive scripting language bound to a UI that can show you the result and maybe help with selecting attachment points, could be a nice and fast way to crank out diagrams.
- arminiusreturns 8y ago
  I have been really enjoying the blockdiag(3) diagramming packages. I use rackdiag to generate server rack diagrams. seqdiag for diagnosing issues or for flowcharting, and am working on an automated mapper that uses netdiag to generate network maps. Those of you looking for programmatic diagram generation, I'd you aren't talking math heavy, try it out. I'd you want math diagram generation, I think that might generally be best done with r/octave/d3 inside an emacs org file or jupyter notebook.
ygra 8y ago
> I wonder though, are there any alternatives to inscape in which you can draw graphs quickly? yEd [0] might be one. There's also an online version with (currently) a tad reduced feature set [1]. [0] https://www.yworks.com/products/yed https://www.yworks.com/products/yed [1] https://www.yworks.com/products/yed-live https://www.yworks.com/products/yed-live There are a number of other applications, though. I still like Graphviz for quickly creating a graph structure, but tweaking its layouts can be cumbersome (Note: yEd Live supports rudimentary Graphviz import as well). There's also dia, draw.io, Gliffy, LucidChart, OpenOffice Draw, Omnigraffle. And PowerPoint works to some extent as well. (Disclaimer: I work for yWorks.)
- chappi42 8y ago
  yEd is very helpful. I occasionally use it since many years.

bdamm 8y ago

The scripted diagramming space is very weak. It's strange to me, because I think having an expressive scripting language bound to a UI that can show you the result and maybe help with selecting attachment points, could be a nice and fast way to crank out diagrams.

arminiusreturns 8y ago
I have been really enjoying the blockdiag(3) diagramming packages. I use rackdiag to generate server rack diagrams. seqdiag for diagnosing issues or for flowcharting, and am working on an automated mapper that uses netdiag to generate network maps. Those of you looking for programmatic diagram generation, I'd you aren't talking math heavy, try it out. I'd you want math diagram generation, I think that might generally be best done with r/octave/d3 inside an emacs org file or jupyter notebook.

ygra 8y ago

> I wonder though, are there any alternatives to inscape in which you can draw graphs quickly? yEd [0] might be one. There's also an online version with (currently) a tad reduced feature set [1]. [0] https://www.yworks.com/products/yed https://www.yworks.com/products/yed [1] https://www.yworks.com/products/yed-live https://www.yworks.com/products/yed-live There are a number of other applications, though. I still like Graphviz for quickly creating a graph structure, but tweaking its layouts can be cumbersome (Note: yEd Live supports rudimentary Graphviz import as well). There's also dia, draw.io, Gliffy, LucidChart, OpenOffice Draw, Omnigraffle. And PowerPoint works to some extent as well. (Disclaimer: I work for yWorks.)

chappi42 8y ago
yEd is very helpful. I occasionally use it since many years.