On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 09:07, Jules Bean wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 12:16:09PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Jules Bean wrote: > > [snip]
> Well, likely I should re-examine Dia. But, let me answer that > question as a LaTeX user, before considering how the answer might > transfer to LyX: > > I use LaTeX not Dia for the following reasons: > > 1) Because if I use LaTeX, the labels at the points, and on the > arrows, can be arbitrary math objects. Can Dia do a blackboard bold R > to the power of n? > > 2) Because if I use LaTeX I can make (paramaterised) macros for > certain commonly used diagrams (e.g. the ajoint pair > I think there was a patch floating around that made it possible to use LaTeX in Dia diagrams but I don't thinkt that it ever made it in to CVS. However you can use the package psfrag to achive that. /Otto
