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My favorite method is to draw figures in xfig, then export the result as
LaTeX picture code and edit the text to take advantage of LaTeX's
text processing capabilities, fonts and special symbols.

It would be quite suitable for flow chart graphics.

D. Yetter


On Saturday, February 21, 2004, at 10:57  AM, jim stasheff wrote:

> Thanks to all the suggestions for `flow chart' graphics.
> I had first asked the alg top list and had no responses
> whereas here I've received 4 or 5 suggestions
>
>
> gastex,
> dia (on Linux)
> xy-pic
> xfig
>  "The LaTeX Graphics Companion",
> Goossens, Rahtz, and Mittelbach
> use the xy-pic and PSTricks packages
> to draw flowcharts.
>
> if anyone has used more than one and cares to comment,
> I would appreciate that
>
> as for example
> Subject:
>              Re: categories: graphics package
>        Date:
>              Sat, 21 Feb 2004 15:24:28 +0000 (GMT)
>       From:
>              Michael Abbott <michael@araneidae.co.uk>
>          To:
>              James Stasheff <stasheff@email.unc.edu>
>  References:
>              1
>
>
>
>
>> 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??
>
> This can be done, with the dint of much pain, with XyPic directly in
> LaTeX.  The layout tends to be perfect, but learning how to use the
> tool
> for anything beyond the simplest diagrams is remarkably painful.
>
> On the other hand, xfig produces very nice results with manual layout,
> and
> is really quite easy to use (though figuring out how to drop the
> diagrams
> into your LaTeX document has its surprises).
>
> jim
>