[OS X TeX] how best to draw diagrams

[Nigel King]

I see that nobody here has suggested metapost.

It is designed for integration with the various TeX's. It is a very good
package that has had many enhancements added recently by Hans Hagen directed
for Context but the pictures can be used in Latex etc. The book on this is
at

http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf

It only tells you half of what it can do.

Happy reading
-- 
Nigel

> From: Daniel Becker <dtbecker at web.de>
> Reply-To: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:51:15 +0100
> To: MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu
> Subject: [OS X TeX] how best to draw diagrams
> 
> Hello,
> 
> for a paper in economics (trade theory) I have to draw several diagrams.
> Up to now, I am looking what the Lamport-book says and draw the pictures
> using the commands for arrows, lines, curves etc. And this is very time
> consuming, especially to get tangential points right.
> 
> It would be nice if anyone could have a look at the pictures and
> recommend a better / more efficient way to draw them. I would prefer
> LaTeX-Code for the pictures, not simply any graphics/drawing package and
> then including .pdf- or .jpg-files.
> 
> The pdf-output with all the pictures is here:
> http://homepage.mac.com/dtbecker/.cv/dtbecker/Public/TP1.pdf-binhex.hqx
> 
> most of the pictures are included as .jgp-files, a snapshot from other
> papers.
> 
> The .tex-file is here:
> http://homepage.mac.com/dtbecker/.cv/dtbecker/Public/TP1.tex-binhex.hqx
> 
> Thanks for any help and in general for this very helpful list!
> 
> daniel
> 
> 
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