On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Lawrence Bottorff <borg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to embed images into my running org file -- for eventual conversion > to Latex or html. These would be simple diagram-style pictures such as math > or technical diagrams that cannot be done with gnuplot or other > formula-to-picture conversion software. > > Examples: > http://www.library.utoronto.ca/see/SEED/Vol5-1/Queiroz_Emmeche_El-Hani_files/image003.gif > http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/irvine/SBGN_process_description_cropped.jpg >
A few that come to mind for this sort of thing: - ditaa: http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ - graphviz/dot: http://www.graphviz.org/ - my personal favorite, but quite the learning curve, it PFG/TikZ: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/ All are possible with babel blocks. Good luck! John > I know emacs can draw some things, but I'd probably need better renditions. > So how does emacs/org handle such images and what sort of software (I'm on > Ubuntu) is available for making such drawings and diagrams? What about > software like "Processing"? Having Processing code embedded that then > produced images would be great. > > Borgauf