On Monday, 6 May 2019 at 14:17, Matt Price wrote: > So, I'm finding more and more that I want to include simple diagrams in my > course materials. At present I am generating them as svg's using Inkscape, > but that feels really tiresome to me. I would much rather make them > programmatically, preferably including the source code as an org-mode block.
You have had recommendations for graphviz (dot etc.) and plantuml already. Those are very good suggestions and I use them all the time. For more general drawings, and given that you want something programmatic, I would also suggest tikz (in LaTeX) as it's very powerful (but then harder to do some simple things that graphiz/plantuml will do very easily). #+begin_export latex \begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=4cm,minimum size=2cm] \node[draw,fill=blue!20!white] (humanities) {Humanities}; \node[draw,fill=blue!20!white] (tools) [right of=humanities] {\parbox{3cm}{Computing \\ Tools and \\ Methodologies}} edge [->,out=270,in=270,very thick,red] (humanities) edge [<-,out=90,in=90,very thick,red] (humanities); \end{tikzpicture} #+end_export -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.3-327-g3375f0