[OS X TeX] Electronic Engineering Reports

[Doaitse Swierstra]

I am impressed by tikz. Download it, and browse through the 300+  
pages manual.
A screenshot of what can be done and further project information can  
be found at:

http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php? 
group_id=142562&ssid=45282

Doaitse Swierstra


On Mar 7, 2007, at 6:12 PM, Dima wrote:

> I'm quite familiar with LaTeX now (ie typesetting, text, using TOC,
> labels etc) as well as typing lots of equations.
>
> Now I want to draw circuit diagrams, timing diagrams, as well as
> graphs, and graph paper.
>
> I heard about MetaPost and PStricks, but it seems to me that these are
> just to much to learn to do "draw" quickly. Same applies to some
> packages I found around CTAN.
>
> Just today I found JpicEdt, Java based application which does this.
>
> But are there any other programs to do this or should I learn
> PStricks/MetaPost (yak) or are there any better ways to do the
> following statements:
>
> 1) Can I make a float figure which has grid/axis to fill in by hand
> after a print it
> 2) Can I create a full page of customised graph paper
> 3) Can I draw on those axis graphs of math expressions
> 4) Can I add points (is black dot big letter A (or alphabetical
> counter better) then (2,5) and label in it as well to reference from
> test)
> 5) Diagrams with symbols for electronic symbols you can think off  
> with labelling
> 6) would be incredible to be able to actually draw on top ie smily
> faces, text, LaTeX equations
>
> + clarifying points
>
> Metafont and PStricks are back-ends that render the source files of
> graphical information made using specialised commands (Y/N/not
> really), and it can be embedded into Latex document, ie include
>
> -- 
> Dmitrij Ledkov
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