Thank you Steve and Murat.
My OS is of course Windows (Vista Ultimate), so the solutions have
to work in that environment.
Typically I would use Ventura Publisher but, it seems that is now
an abandoned product of Corel Corporation, so migration is the
obvious path.
I know a little of the various file formats, and some tools from
Adobe might work. I am not so familiar with these tools, however,
so some time to review will be necessary.
I am also noticing an apparent failure of the tabular operator
not to work. In particular, I am setting columns with C and p{2cm}
the p parameter column does not yield a change in column width.
I would like to have a two or three column table, where each column
is itself a two column table, with the three major columns each
separated by some significant space. These three sets of two columns
define a coding (in binary) and a mnemonic. So, it would look like
000000 RX 001000 LDR 100000 SR
What I get does not have the columns aligned in centered form; left
and right are constantly changing, so columns are messy, or even
hard to see.
When I gain some more competence in TeX, I will return to using LyX.
Thanks.
wrb
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Steve Litt
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 10:48 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Graphics Tools
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:44:55 -0700, William R. Buckley said:
> > Working with TeX is a bit of a challenge, since it seems not to
> > include much support for abstract drawing. I have need for figures
> > to appear in a paper, and am not familiar with the toolset usually
> > employed for use to make drawn images suitable for use with TeX.
> >
> > Can you please make a few suggestions.
> >
> > wrb
>
> I use dia for diagrams (kind of what Windows guys use Visio for),
> Inkscape for vector drawing, and Gimp for raster drawing.
>
> dia exports to .png, which can import directly into LyX. Inkscape
> uses .svg, which can import directly into LyX, for a native format.
> Gimp can write just about any kind of raster format.
>
> HTH
>
> SteveT
>
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