From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/2558 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin McLarty Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: graphics package Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:20:21 -0500 Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20040221100321.00b63dc8@pop.cwru.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241018745 4723 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:25:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:25:45 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Sun Feb 22 16:06:53 2004 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:06:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.10) id 1Auzl8-0001pW-00 for categories-list@mta.ca; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:59:26 -0400 X-Sender: cxm7@pop.cwru.edu (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 19 Original-Lines: 21 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:2558 Archived-At: Jim Stasheff wrote: >Anyone have a recommendation for a software package that >makes it easy to draw the equivalent of flow chart? >with boxes, triangles, circles as junctions?? I like Xy-Pic very much (with LaTeX). It can do that. You would probably use the "graph" feature or see the worked example on p. 10 of the user's guide. The downside is that the user's guide and the reference manual are very spotty. I find the only way to learn to use Xy-pic, and then to learn to use any given feature, is to copy the examples out of the relevant section of the user's guide or the reference manual and fool around with them until you see which parts do what. The Xy-pic chapter of the LaTeX GRAPHICS COMPANION was *extremely* helpful to me. Colin