From: David Wooten <dw@trichotomic.net>
Subject: Charts, Graphs, Tufte, and ConTeXt
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:55:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C1071F.80300@trichotomic.net> (raw)
Greetings all,
I've been itching to stop using "Illustrator" and other programs to make
the charts and graphs I wish to include in my ConTeXt-generated
documents, and would like to get some advice on the matter.
There is a special (albeit not well furnished) place in my heart for
Tufte's /"Visual Display of Quantitative Information/", so I suppose I
am always leaning towards that philosophy of chart-making. I came across
Jean-luc Doumont's article /"Drawing effective (and beautiful) graphs
with TeX*" [1]/, in which he refers to his macro package called
JLdraw---and shows some pretty examples. JLdraw was in fact never
generally released, although when I contacted him he was happy to send
along the macro package. In beginning to tinker with them, I have not
had much luck getting them to work within ConTeXt, undoubtedly due to my
persistent naiveté.
Thus I'm curious as to what others use... is R an efficient method to
produce elegant charts? Is straight MetaPost preferable?
Many thanks,
David
[1] http://www.tug.org/TUG99-web/pdf/doumont2.pdf
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-21 16:55 David Wooten [this message]
2006-07-21 17:36 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-07-21 19:22 ` David Wooten
2006-07-22 14:00 ` John R. Culleton
2006-07-22 15:35 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-23 17:48 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-07-23 20:04 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2006-07-23 20:38 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-07-24 9:30 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-24 15:23 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-07-25 12:12 ` Karl Ove Hufthammer
2006-07-26 21:02 ` Nicolas Grilly
2006-07-27 14:14 ` Karl Ove Hufthammer
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