Liviu Andronic wrote: > There is latexdraw, but personally I never got to compile in LyX the > code it generates (although never seriously tried, either). I mostly > use Dia [1] to generate vector images (.pdf or .eps), and include > these in my LyX document. Another way is the newish TikZ [2], but I'm > not very familiar with this one.
note also that xfig and dia files can be directly embeded via external material. pavel