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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 tik
by plesn 18y ago
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...
- scott_s 18y agoGraphics 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.
- plesn 18y agoI 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!
- eru 18y agoI recently discovered graphviz to layout my graphs. (Graphs as in graph theory.)