Re: tree charts

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:05:08 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid
> <ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:
>
>>> 2) Easiest syntax and prettiest looking output: tikz. You need one of
>>> the recent versions of tikz that work fine with context (except some
>>> of the exotic features, like adding arbitrary nodes to the page)
>>
>> Never heard of it; will look it up
>
> This looks like a really nice package. The following, howeve, cracked me
> up (manual, page 67):
>
> "This special module is necessary since ConTeXt satanically restricts the
> length of module names..."
>
> LOL '<

This was true until about the beginning of 2005. I do not know when 
Till Tantau first tried to port pgf to context. A while back I told 
him that this is no longer true for ConTeXt .... but there has not 
been a new release of the manual for a while.

I also found the following to be funny:

<quote>
2.2.3 Setting up the Environment in ConTEXt
Karl’s uncle Hans uses ConTEXt. Like Gerda, Hans can also use TikZ.
</quote>


If you decide to try it, check out the code from CVS rather than from 
CTAN. There have been some changes since version 1.10, many of them 
improve the compatibility with ConTeXt (colors, etc.)

Aditya