[OS X TeX] diagrams

[Alessandro Languasco]

It seems to me the original question was about commutative diagrams,
not about flowcharts.

By the way, maybe the flowcharts can be considered as a "related  
stuff"...
but for them I strongly suggest to use pgf/tikz.

Alessandro

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, soumya dipta wrote:


> Hello everyone,
> Can someone give me some advice about the packages available for  
> producing commutative diagrams and related stuff in latex?

On 11/mar/08, at 10:23, Roberto Avanzi wrote:

> On 10.03.2008, at 12:32, Alessandro Languasco wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I think that Xy-pic is widely used by Mathematicians
>>
>> http://www.tug.org/applications/Xy-pic/
>
> Yes it is, but the look is very often somehow un-TeX-like, and
> I miss some flexibility.  At the moment I am using pstricks and
> especially the psmatrix environment, but I am planning to toy
> with pgf/tikz and see what I can do with it.
>
> In the teaching section of my web page
>
> http://caccioppoli.mac.rub.de/website/Teaching.html
>
> you can find the exercises for a crypto course - I provided also
> the sources for my students to peruse - and also as a blueprint
> in case they want to submit their solutions electronically.  In
> these files pstricks has been used.
> For instance
>
> http://caccioppoli.mac.rub.de/website/teachingmaterial/k1-ws0708/ 
> uz6.tex
> http://caccioppoli.mac.rub.de/website/teachingmaterial/k1-ws0708/ 
> uz6.pdf
>
> contains a diagram with curved arrows. Another example
>
> http://caccioppoli.mac.rub.de/website/teachingmaterial/k1-ws0708/ 
> uz7.tex
> http://caccioppoli.mac.rub.de/website/teachingmaterial/k1-ws0708/ 
> uz7.pdf
>
> and a more complex example in
>
> http://caccioppoli.mac.rub.de/website/teachingmaterial/k1-ws0708/ 
> uzA.tex
> http://caccioppoli.mac.rub.de/website/teachingmaterial/k1-ws0708/ 
> uzA.pdf
>
> The exercises and solutions will disappear at the beginning of next
> semester (second week of April), so if you are curious grab them  
> now ;-)
>
> I do not pretend these examples to be masterly - a few fine placing
> techniques can probably be done much better - but they can be taken
> as a starting point to make more complex stuff.  Sorry for the German,
> but I teach at a german university...
>
>  best
>   Roberto
>
>
>
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