RE: Mapping diagram

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:50 PM 1/11/01 -0400, White, George wrote:
>Metapost is an excellent tool for drawing diagrams 
>with boxes and arrows.  I think arrows are always
>"available" in metapost. The boxing macros are designed
>specifically for this sort of figure, but I'm not sure 
>that they will work with the metafun stuff, so you may 
>have to generate the diagrams as external figures.  I 
>used to do such diagrams using PStricks, metapost works just
>as well and is supported in pdftex.     

I think that boxes should work well with metafun but I didn't test it
(dennis did and afaik succeeded). I did a rewrite of one of hobbies
packages concerning graphics but still have to document / integrate it [the
extensions concerns a bit more efficient way to handle embedded tex code].

Concerning diagrams, there is always the flowchart module. It has quite
some shapes, can draw arrows, draws its lines itself, and most of all, can
have all kind of context in the cells, so you can have hyperlinked charts.
This is described in an uptodate doc at our site. 

This module will be extended as soon as i need it -)  

Hans 
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