On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 05:13:30PM -0800, T. V. Raman wrote: > >From the thread, it's unclear whether you're looking for > solutions that will help you create or consume such diagrams -- > the two questions are separate and should be thought of > separately.
Certainly, but both I suppose. > consuming these plots --- for that I'd personally not focus > exclusively on the graphs/plots, but on the actual material --- > in most cases -- except if you're an arts student studying fine > visual art, the visual plots/graphs are a tool to help learning, > not the material being learnt. Ok yes, thanks it's a very good point actually. > > Once you're at the next stge, where you've learnt the material, > and now need to express your own ideas e.g. a homework assignment > --- is where you need to be able to create plots and graphs > analogous to what was encountered at the first step. exactly > > For this, I'd personally use the following: > > 1. Some of the drawing packages in LaTeX -- my own personal > favorite is the pstricks package. I'll check it out. It sounds like a few people have suggested LaTeX drawings actually. > > 2. For more complex problems I'd point at Asymptote -- an > extremely powerful drawing program backed by a really nice > language. Haven't heard of this one before, but again I'll check it out. > > Above all, look for drawing tools that let you say what you want, > rather than tools that expect you to rely on visual feedback on > the screen to adjust your drawing. Yes. Thanks very much for your advice it is very useful. I'll now go investigate these ideas a bit more. :) Cheers, Dan _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
