[texhax] making flow chart with latex

[Reinhard Kotucha]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> writes:

  > On 2005-11-11 08:59:04 +0100, Alphonse Monkamg wrote:
  >> I'm currently Ph.D student at the university of Bordeaux
  >> (France).  Please, I would like to know how to construct a flow
  >> chart with latex. Possible if you may have a latex example.

  > Please, next time do your research yourself.

What a crappy response...  Sorry, Martin.

A few days ago I mentioned on this list that I wonder whether people
providing such responses have nothing better to do.  I still don't
know.

At least, I think that it is very, very sad that people are treated
like this on this list.  This mailing list is absolutely useless if
people are told to go away or that they are too stupid whenever they
have a question.

It is better to shut down this mailing list completely, IMO.  The
current situation is that people who have a problem are just told how
stupid they are.  This is quite counterproductive.

This mailing list claims that it provides help but all it does is to
offend people who have a question.

What do you think is better for a novice, getting such a crappy
response or none at all?  Certainly, it's better if they don't get a
response at all.  So what is texhax good for?

Of course, THE QUESTION IS ABSOLUTELY APPROPRIATE HERE and it even is
quite interesting.

For people who don't understand yet, I repeat it:

   *** THE QUESTION IS ABSOLUTELY APPROPRIATE HERE ***

Texhax has been founded to provide answers to such questions.  But
everything people get today is "go away!".

The purpose of this mailing list is that people can ask such questions
(and what obviously not everyone realized: they should get a useful
and polite response).

  > Googling for "flowchart latex" (or in the list archive) brings up
  > a thread on this list, which mentions flow.sty

   > And there is http://tug.ctan.org/search.html, which also leads to
  > flow.sty

This is *one* solution.  I'm not sure whether this is the best one.

Some time ago, a colleague of mine produced a lot of flowcharts for
his thesis using metapost.  He was absolutely new to TeX so nobody can
say that metapost is only good for experts.

The result was amazingly good and metapost provides a vast amount of
flexibility.  I think that this is the preferred way to do things like
this.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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