[Tugindia] regarding diagrams
Kannan Moudgalya
kannan at iitb.ac.in
Wed Apr 7 04:42:08 CEST 2010
Srikrishna Doraiswamy wrote:
> I think the best diagrams can be drawn on IPE. It is free and open source.
> Drawing with it is as easy as drawing in Powerpoint or some such similar
> software. I use IPE for all reports/papers. You can save as eps files, and
> include in it your latex document. You can also include special preamble
> statements if required (eg : \usepackage{amsmath}). Of course, you can
> include latex math, and the fonts are latex fonts by default.
>
>
> http://tclab.kaist.ac.kr/ipe/
>
I had suggested xfig, a FOSS package, in my last mail. There were also
other suggestions. All of them could be good for one or other
situation. Unfortunately, however, it takes quite a bit of time for a
novice to learn new packages.
To address this issue, we are carrying out a project to create spoken
tutorials, http://spoken-tutorial.org. All contributions in this page
will be under CC, although we have only a copyright statement as of
now. Through this project we hope to popularise FOSS and to bridge the
digital divide in India.
Coming back to the current discussion, I plan to create spoken tutorials
on xfig. Are there volunteers for any other package?
Kannan
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