On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 03:31:16PM -0600, Les Denham wrote: > Personally, I think xfig is quite a neat tool to do exactly what you're > asking. > > Some alternatives: > [...]
Small story: Some girl recently finished her diploma thesis here. Having a Windows background, the "obvious" "solution" was Scientific Workplace. And no, I did not try to force LyX upon her (wrong decision in retrospect, but anyway...). Than came fine-tuning time and we finally ended up editing a plain old .tex file with plain old vi. And it worked surprisingly well, except for the last-minute-changes to the CorelDraw graphics (some box backgrounds had to be adjusted, as well as some font changes) After a "You know that you could do that kind of stuff with a one liner if you had used xfig?" she came back one day later with all the figures re-done as .fig. She never had used xfig before and there was no word of complaint with respect to the "ugly" "unusual" interface. As additional benefits everything now nicely fits on a single floppy, formulas look like formulas in the drawings and it works even with pdfLaTeX. So, no, neither PowerPoint nor CorelDraw is necessarily the solution for every kind of drawing problem. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
