I've used TeX/LaTeX for 24 years and I look at PGF/TikZ and it seems more verbose than I can stand. Do you edit it by hand, which seems to be the case for simp

I've used TeX/LaTeX for 24 years and I look at PGF/TikZ and it seems more verbose than I can stand. Do you edit it by hand, which seems to be the case for simpler diagrams, or is there a map/transform application that can take output from drawing applications?