On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:02:12PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:30:16AM -0800, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 09:58:16AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > > 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. > > Without wishing to be rude... I don't that is the best thing. > > Unless dia is *far* better than it was when I last looked, it's still > essentially a graphical tool. WYSIWYG, in other words. I search for > a more formal, logical, WYSIWYM approach. I just specify the data of > the commutative diagram in LaTeX, the diagram packages handle the > layout. > > Being a mathematician I much prefer specifying logical diagrams rather > than drawing them myself when I can. > > But I would like a LyX interface to it.. > > Jules
Hmmm... Okay. Another possibility might be graphviz (www.graphviz.org)
but that might be too low level for you too.
---Kayvan
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