Hello, Lawrence Bottorff <borg...@gmail.com> writes:
> I know lots of you use Emacs and org mode to prepare scholarly books and > papers, either doing the HTML or, more probably, the Latex > export. Question: Let's say I want to produce a math text with > Emacs/org-mode/Latex. What is the best way to make diagrams and > images? I've seen things like Inkscape and LibreOffice Draw. But then there > is Gnuplot and Tikz. Yes, what Tikz does seems optimal, > but the learning curve is a year's sabbatical. Just wondering what you people > are using to do your images. > I'm very impressed by tikz and gnuplot. I use both of them inefficiently sometimes trying to understand some code here and there. There documentation are very good though. It would be great for a sabatical in my opinion. Because I didn't take the time to learn tikz and gnuplot, these days I mostly make graphics with R and ggplot2 though. The advantage is that in addition of the good documentation there is a quite a number of people using it so it more likely that some people have encountered your problem before or has a solution to your problem. So you can find solution more quickly I believe. Yet this is an easy way out because I think taking the time to learn how the stuff really works give you some perspective. Best regards, Jeremie
