Thank you Steve and Murat. My OS is of course Windows (Vista Ultimate), so the solutions have to work in that environment.
Typically I would use Ventura Publisher but, it seems that is now an abandoned product of Corel Corporation, so migration is the obvious path. I know a little of the various file formats, and some tools from Adobe might work. I am not so familiar with these tools, however, so some time to review will be necessary. I am also noticing an apparent failure of the tabular operator not to work. In particular, I am setting columns with C and p{2cm} the p parameter column does not yield a change in column width. I would like to have a two or three column table, where each column is itself a two column table, with the three major columns each separated by some significant space. These three sets of two columns define a coding (in binary) and a mnemonic. So, it would look like 000000 RX 001000 LDR 100000 SR What I get does not have the columns aligned in centered form; left and right are constantly changing, so columns are messy, or even hard to see. When I gain some more competence in TeX, I will return to using LyX. Thanks. wrb > -----Original Message----- > From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On > Behalf Of Steve Litt > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 10:48 AM > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Cc: w...@wrbuckley.com > Subject: Re: Graphics Tools > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:44:55 -0700, William R. Buckley said: > > Working with TeX is a bit of a challenge, since it seems not to > > include much support for abstract drawing. I have need for figures > > to appear in a paper, and am not familiar with the toolset usually > > employed for use to make drawn images suitable for use with TeX. > > > > Can you please make a few suggestions. > > > > wrb > > I use dia for diagrams (kind of what Windows guys use Visio for), > Inkscape for vector drawing, and Gimp for raster drawing. > > dia exports to .png, which can import directly into LyX. Inkscape > uses .svg, which can import directly into LyX, for a native format. > Gimp can write just about any kind of raster format. > > HTH > > SteveT > > Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > * http://twitter.com/stevelitt > Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance