William R. Buckley wrote:

> 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

Almost always the diagrams I want are block diagrams.  Requirements are:

Boxes with text labels
Connectors
Everything aligns on the grid!
Export to vector format
Some text on lines (some math would be nice)

You'd think that would be pretty minimal, but I've spent countless hours trying 
to meet these requirements.

You'd think libreoffice might do it.  My experience is otherwise.  After 
playing 
with grid settings, I still find things get placed off grid.

Perhaps the best for now is dia.

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