Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-15 Thread John Pye
Hi, For UML diagrams, consider taking a look at Gaphor which is a purpose built UML program that runs on Linux, Windows Mac (using Python and GTK+). It's also worth taking a look at Graphviz (dot, neato), especially if you think you might like to automate the production of your diagrams.

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-15 Thread John Pye
Hi, For UML diagrams, consider taking a look at Gaphor which is a purpose built UML program that runs on Linux, Windows Mac (using Python and GTK+). It's also worth taking a look at Graphviz (dot, neato), especially if you think you might like to automate the production of your diagrams.

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-15 Thread John Pye
Hi, For UML diagrams, consider taking a look at Gaphor which is a purpose built UML program that runs on Linux, Windows & Mac (using Python and GTK+). It's also worth taking a look at Graphviz (dot, neato), especially if you think you might like to automate the production of your diagrams.

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-05 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_08_01_05.html in the list for vector drawing programs Pyx is missing, which one should also consider. http://pyx.sourceforge.net/ Wolfgang Lists a lot of drawing programs. The program I read most recommended is OmniGraffle (4 Pro) which

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-05 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_08_01_05.html in the list for vector drawing programs Pyx is missing, which one should also consider. http://pyx.sourceforge.net/ Wolfgang Lists a lot of drawing programs. The program I read most recommended is OmniGraffle (4 Pro) which

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-05 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
> >http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_08_01_05.html in the list for vector drawing programs Pyx is missing, which one should also consider. http://pyx.sourceforge.net/ Wolfgang > > > >Lists a lot of drawing programs. The program I read most > >recommended is OmniGraffle (4 Pro)

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/06, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Inkscape seems particularly apt to produce flowcharts, as it has got the 'connectors' features, making the arrows connected even when one moves the connected frames. And it can save the pictures as vectorial eps, pdf, and so on. Inkscape

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:58:15 +0100 From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX On 8/3/06, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] To illustrate what I said, I am sending a small svg picture with a math formula produced

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/4/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To illustrate what I said, I am sending a small svg picture with a math formula produced with LaTeX. Thank you for this example. To illustrate the difference in handling between Xfig and Inkscape, here is a beamer slide with both

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:59:30 +0100 From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX On 8/4/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To illustrate what I said, I am sending a small svg picture with a math formula produced

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/4/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To illustrate what I said, I am sending a small svg picture with a math formula produced with LaTeX. The inferior quality of my example as it appears on your beamer presentation is because you took the screenshot of the kpdf output.

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Paul Smith wrote: As you may see, the beamer fonts are respected in the xfig inset. The inferior quality of my example as it appears on your beamer presentation is because you took the screenshot of the kpdf output. You will not notice any difference if you use acroread.

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Stephen Harris
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Paul Smith wrote: As you may see, the beamer fonts are respected in the xfig inset. IMNSHO, the major point is that we have multiple ways of accomplishing the same tasks and reaching the same goals. In the end -- on paper or projected on a screen

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:38:52 +0200 (MEST) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:58:15 +0100 From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:12:06 -0700 Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Paul Smith wrote: As you may see

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Friday 04 August 2006 21:14, Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: I'm not trying to side-track this discussion, but there's a bit of an issue I've had with XFig itself (before I incorporate its figures into LyX, which works fabulously). I can start XFig so that all NEW text has the special flag and

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Ingo Klöcker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:11:10 +0200 On Friday 04 August 2006 21:14, Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: I'm not trying to side-track this discussion, but there's a bit of an issue I've

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/4/06, Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you may see, the beamer fonts are respected in the xfig inset. The inferior quality of my example as it appears on your beamer presentation is because you took the screenshot of the kpdf output. You will not notice any difference if you

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/06, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Inkscape seems particularly apt to produce flowcharts, as it has got the 'connectors' features, making the arrows connected even when one moves the connected frames. And it can save the pictures as vectorial eps, pdf, and so on. Inkscape

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:58:15 +0100 From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX On 8/3/06, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] To illustrate what I said, I am sending a small svg picture with a math formula produced

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/4/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To illustrate what I said, I am sending a small svg picture with a math formula produced with LaTeX. Thank you for this example. To illustrate the difference in handling between Xfig and Inkscape, here is a beamer slide with both

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:59:30 +0100 From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX On 8/4/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To illustrate what I said, I am sending a small svg picture with a math formula produced

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/4/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To illustrate what I said, I am sending a small svg picture with a math formula produced with LaTeX. The inferior quality of my example as it appears on your beamer presentation is because you took the screenshot of the kpdf output.

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Paul Smith wrote: As you may see, the beamer fonts are respected in the xfig inset. The inferior quality of my example as it appears on your beamer presentation is because you took the screenshot of the kpdf output. You will not notice any difference if you use acroread.

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Stephen Harris
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Paul Smith wrote: As you may see, the beamer fonts are respected in the xfig inset. IMNSHO, the major point is that we have multiple ways of accomplishing the same tasks and reaching the same goals. In the end -- on paper or projected on a screen

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:38:52 +0200 (MEST) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:58:15 +0100 From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:12:06 -0700 Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Paul Smith wrote: As you may see

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Friday 04 August 2006 21:14, Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: I'm not trying to side-track this discussion, but there's a bit of an issue I've had with XFig itself (before I incorporate its figures into LyX, which works fabulously). I can start XFig so that all NEW text has the special flag and

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Ingo Klöcker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:11:10 +0200 On Friday 04 August 2006 21:14, Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: I'm not trying to side-track this discussion, but there's a bit of an issue I've

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/4/06, Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you may see, the beamer fonts are respected in the xfig inset. The inferior quality of my example as it appears on your beamer presentation is because you took the screenshot of the kpdf output. You will not notice any difference if you

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/06, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Inkscape seems particularly apt to produce flowcharts, as it has got > > the 'connectors' features, making the arrows connected even when one > > moves the connected frames. And it can save the pictures as vectorial > > eps, pdf, and so on. >

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:58:15 +0100 >>From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX >> >>On 8/3/06, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> >>To

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/4/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>To illustrate what I said, I am sending a small svg picture with a >>math formula produced with LaTeX. Thank you for this example. To illustrate the difference in handling between Xfig and Inkscape, here is a beamer slide with both

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:59:30 +0100 >>From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX >> >>On 8/4/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/4/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>To illustrate what I said, I am sending a small svg picture with a >>> >>math formula produced with LaTeX. >> >>The inferior quality of my example as it appears on your beamer >>presentation is because you took the screenshot of

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Paul Smith wrote: As you may see, the beamer fonts are respected in the xfig inset. The inferior quality of my example as it appears on your beamer presentation is because you took the screenshot of the kpdf output. You will not notice any difference if you use acroread.

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Stephen Harris
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Paul Smith wrote: As you may see, the beamer fonts are respected in the xfig inset. IMNSHO, the major point is that we have multiple ways of accomplishing the same tasks and reaching the same goals. In the end -- on paper or projected on a screen

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:38:52 +0200 (MEST) >>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:58:15 +0100 >>From: "

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:12:06 -0700 Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Paul Smith wrote: As

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Friday 04 August 2006 21:14, Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: >I'm not trying to side-track this discussion, but there's a bit of > an issue I've had with XFig itself (before I incorporate its figures > into LyX, which works fabulously). I can start XFig so that all NEW > text has the "special"

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
From: Ingo Klöcker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:11:10 +0200 On Friday 04 August 2006 21:14, Curtis Osterhoudt wrote: >I'm not trying to side-track this discussion, but there's a bit of &

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/4/06, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As you may see, the beamer fonts are respected in the xfig inset. > The inferior quality of my example as it appears on your beamer > presentation is because you took the screenshot of the kpdf output. You > will not notice any difference if

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Niels Muller Larsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Shepard wrote: The last time I tried counting I found more than 17 different vector drawing applications that are suitable for use with LaTeX/LyX documents. I've used Tgif, Xfig, jpicedt, IDE, and PSTricks. Each has strengths and

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:20:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX [...] What I want to draw now are software flowcharts that illustrate how a model is structured and how data flow from one component

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Niels Muller Larsen wrote: Take a look at Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/) Thank you all. Dia it is. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM)|Accelerator

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 03 August 2006 09:33 am, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Niels Muller Larsen wrote: Take a look at Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/) Thank you all. Dia it is. I've been using Dia for years. It's good. When using Dia, I'd suggest you first get your fonts right

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Steve Litt wrote: I've been using Dia for years. It's good. Thanks, Steve. When using Dia, I'd suggest you first get your fonts right with one box, and then copy that box elsewhere. I know of no way to globally change fonts (other than tweaking with Dia's native XML

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 08:09:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Steve Litt wrote: I've been using Dia for years. It's good. Thanks, Steve. When using Dia, I'd suggest you first

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: IMHO, it's a pity to export to bitmap diagrams which have such a strong vectorial nature. The UML diagrams which are in the xfig library do not fit your needs ? In addition, the xfig inset in lyx works great. Jean-Pierre, It has been at least

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: It has been at least six years since I looked at xfig. Well! xfig used to be a drawing language, now it's a GUI application. Imagine that. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services,

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 08:23:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: IMHO, it's a pity to export to bitmap diagrams which have such a strong vectorial nature

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, it's a pity to export to bitmap diagrams which have such a strong vectorial nature. The UML diagrams which are in the xfig library do not fit your needs ? In addition, the xfig inset in lyx works great. It has been at least

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Inkscape seems particularly apt to produce flowcharts, as it has got the 'connectors' features, making the arrows connected even when one moves the connected frames. And it can save the pictures as vectorial eps, pdf, and so on. Inkscape looks pretty nice, but unless I'm

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 03 August 2006 11:23 am, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: IMHO, it's a pity to export to bitmap diagrams which have such a strong vectorial nature. The UML diagrams which are in the xfig library do not fit your needs ? In addition, the xfig

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Inkscape seems particularly apt to produce flowcharts, as it has got the 'connectors' features, making the arrows connected even when one moves the connected frames. And it can save the pictures as vectorial eps, pdf, and so on. Inkscape

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Niels Muller Larsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Shepard wrote: The last time I tried counting I found more than 17 different vector drawing applications that are suitable for use with LaTeX/LyX documents. I've used Tgif, Xfig, jpicedt, IDE, and PSTricks. Each has strengths and

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:20:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX [...] What I want to draw now are software flowcharts that illustrate how a model is structured and how data flow from one component

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Niels Muller Larsen wrote: Take a look at Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/) Thank you all. Dia it is. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM)|Accelerator

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 03 August 2006 09:33 am, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Niels Muller Larsen wrote: Take a look at Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/) Thank you all. Dia it is. I've been using Dia for years. It's good. When using Dia, I'd suggest you first get your fonts right

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Steve Litt wrote: I've been using Dia for years. It's good. Thanks, Steve. When using Dia, I'd suggest you first get your fonts right with one box, and then copy that box elsewhere. I know of no way to globally change fonts (other than tweaking with Dia's native XML

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 08:09:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Steve Litt wrote: I've been using Dia for years. It's good. Thanks, Steve. When using Dia, I'd suggest you first

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: IMHO, it's a pity to export to bitmap diagrams which have such a strong vectorial nature. The UML diagrams which are in the xfig library do not fit your needs ? In addition, the xfig inset in lyx works great. Jean-Pierre, It has been at least

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: It has been at least six years since I looked at xfig. Well! xfig used to be a drawing language, now it's a GUI application. Imagine that. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services,

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 08:23:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: IMHO, it's a pity to export to bitmap diagrams which have such a strong vectorial nature

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, it's a pity to export to bitmap diagrams which have such a strong vectorial nature. The UML diagrams which are in the xfig library do not fit your needs ? In addition, the xfig inset in lyx works great. It has been at least

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Inkscape seems particularly apt to produce flowcharts, as it has got the 'connectors' features, making the arrows connected even when one moves the connected frames. And it can save the pictures as vectorial eps, pdf, and so on. Inkscape looks pretty nice, but unless I'm

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 03 August 2006 11:23 am, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: IMHO, it's a pity to export to bitmap diagrams which have such a strong vectorial nature. The UML diagrams which are in the xfig library do not fit your needs ? In addition, the xfig

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Inkscape seems particularly apt to produce flowcharts, as it has got the 'connectors' features, making the arrows connected even when one moves the connected frames. And it can save the pictures as vectorial eps, pdf, and so on. Inkscape

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Niels Muller Larsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Shepard wrote: > The last time I tried counting I found more than 17 different vector > drawing applications that are suitable for use with LaTeX/LyX documents. > I've used Tgif, Xfig, jpicedt, IDE, and PSTricks. Each has strengths and >

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:20:31 -0700 (PDT) >>From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX >> [...] >> >> What I want to draw now are software flowcharts that illustrate how a

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Niels Muller Larsen wrote: Take a look at Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/) Thank you all. Dia it is. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM)|Accelerator

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 03 August 2006 09:33 am, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Niels Muller Larsen wrote: > > Take a look at Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/) > >Thank you all. Dia it is. I've been using Dia for years. It's good. When using Dia, I'd suggest you first get your fonts

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Steve Litt wrote: I've been using Dia for years. It's good. Thanks, Steve. When using Dia, I'd suggest you first get your fonts right with one box, and then copy that box elsewhere. I know of no way to globally change fonts (other than tweaking with Dia's native XML

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 08:09:28 -0700 (PDT) >>From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX >> >>On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Steve Litt wrote: >> >>> I've been using Dia for y

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: IMHO, it's a pity to export to bitmap diagrams which have such a strong vectorial nature. The UML diagrams which are in the xfig library do not fit your needs ? In addition, the xfig inset in lyx works great. Jean-Pierre, It has been at least

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Rich Shepard
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Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 08:23:45 -0700 (PDT) >>From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX >> >>On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: >> >>> IMHO, it's a p

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/06, Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> IMHO, it's a pity to export to bitmap diagrams which have such a strong >>> vectorial nature. The UML diagrams which are in the xfig library do not >>> fit your needs ? In addition, the xfig inset in lyx works great. >> >> It has

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul Smith wrote: Inkscape seems particularly apt to produce flowcharts, as it has got the 'connectors' features, making the arrows connected even when one moves the connected frames. And it can save the pictures as vectorial eps, pdf, and so on. Inkscape looks pretty nice, but unless I'm

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 03 August 2006 11:23 am, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: > > IMHO, it's a pity to export to bitmap diagrams which have such a strong > > vectorial nature. The UML diagrams which are in the xfig library do not > > fit your needs ? In addition, the

Re: Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Smith
On 8/3/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Inkscape seems particularly apt to produce flowcharts, as it has got > the 'connectors' features, making the arrows connected even when one > moves the connected frames. And it can save the pictures as vectorial > eps, pdf, and so on.

Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-02 Thread Rich Shepard
The last time I tried counting I found more than 17 different vector drawing applications that are suitable for use with LaTeX/LyX documents. I've used Tgif, Xfig, jpicedt, IDE, and PSTricks. Each has strengths and weaknesses, so I use whichever seems to be the best for a particular type of

Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-02 Thread Rich Shepard
The last time I tried counting I found more than 17 different vector drawing applications that are suitable for use with LaTeX/LyX documents. I've used Tgif, Xfig, jpicedt, IDE, and PSTricks. Each has strengths and weaknesses, so I use whichever seems to be the best for a particular type of

Flow Chart Drawing For LaTeX/LyX

2006-08-02 Thread Rich Shepard
The last time I tried counting I found more than 17 different vector drawing applications that are suitable for use with LaTeX/LyX documents. I've used Tgif, Xfig, jpicedt, IDE, and PSTricks. Each has strengths and weaknesses, so I use whichever seems to be the best for a particular type of