On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 09:58:16AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > This message is not at all apropos of getting 1.2 released, so read it > when you're in a dreamy mood. > > Something which I think would really be a *killer* feature for LyX > would be the ability to write plug-ins to handle custom environments. > > As an example of the kind of thing I'm thinking of, categorists and > topologists often want to draw commutative diagrams. I'm neither, but > I have attended a category theory course, and I wrote up my notes in > LyX. I had to do with huge amounts of ERT (there may even have been > some posts from me here about it at that time). >
The best thing for that is to grab "dia". It's a tool for editing diagrams. I use it to create object-oriented designs using UML, but it also has lots of other diagram sets including circuit diagrams, ER diagrams, flowcharts, etc. When you have created your diagram, you can export it as encapuslated postscript, or TeX (using pstricks), or png, etc. I usually export it as eps for easy inclusion in my LyX documents. The URL for dia is http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/dia.html ---Kayvan [[ Available for consulting. http://www.sylvan.com/~kayvan/Resume.html ]] -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89) http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | "crown of her husband" | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
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