[OS X TeX] Simple Illustration Program

[Ross Moore]

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> Wednesday, 15 May 2002
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I need to make some simple thermodynamic cycle (Brayton/Humphrey cycles) 
> illustrations to include into my LaTeX document.  I was wondering what 
> kind of program others use to accomplish similar task where a simple 
> diagram is needed for inclusion into a LaTeX file.

Despite the suggestions to use MatLab, GnuPlot, etc. 
you can actually do the drawing of such diagrams within TeX itself.

Those thermodynamic cycles just need a couple of splines,
some straight lines, solid/dashed or dotted, and lots of labelling.
Xy-pic is just the tool for this kind of thing.

I've knocked together some examples:

    http://www-texdev.mpce.mq.edu.au/ZACHARY/cycles/

with coding and comments. There's a PDF version too.



Hope this helps,

	Ross Moore


 
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