Timeline for Illustrating mathematics with wysiwyg tools
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| Jan 3, 2019 at 4:39 | answer | added | C.F.G | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 2, 2018 at 1:01 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Mar 1, 2018 at 13:49 | answer | added | Nik Weaver | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 1, 2018 at 13:47 | comment | added | Ira Gessel | I use EazyDraw (for Mac), eazydraw.com, using LaTeXiT for formulas (chachatelier.fr/latexit/latexit-home.php?lang=en). | |
| Mar 1, 2018 at 13:06 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 1, 2018 at 9:57 | answer | added | Tobias Diez | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 28, 2018 at 18:00 | comment | added | Anthony Quas | PS: xfig on a mac is a bit of an adventure: you have to install XQuartz (a mac version of the linux XWindows), something called fink (a package that compiles linux code to run on a mac), and then finally you can use fink to install xfig. Once this is done, I find it to be reasonably stable. | |
| Feb 28, 2018 at 17:46 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
at least some of the (software) related tags are suitable for this question
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| Feb 28, 2018 at 17:45 | comment | added | Anthony Quas | I love xfig (on linux/unix/mac). I'd say its LaTeX capabilities are actually not bad at all (I recently learned how to export as PDF+LaTeX, allowing LaTeX fonts to be used in figures in a straightforward way). Two particularly nice features (maybe basic) are the "group" mode to group a number of objects into a single object that can then be copied - great for recursive figures! - and a layer feature, so that the diagram is composed of superposed layers, each of which can be independently edited. All of this is quite intuitive and easy to use. | |
| Feb 28, 2018 at 17:45 | answer | added | James Smith | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 28, 2018 at 17:27 | comment | added | Peter Heinig | Good old xfig is still a force to be reckoned with. Its LaTeX capabilities are rather rudimentary but not non-existent, and well-documented in several places. A drawback is that on an MS operating sytem, one needs some 'virtualization' to simulate a unix-like environment. | |
| Feb 28, 2018 at 17:13 | comment | added | darij grinberg | I have heard someone recommend ipe and inkscape. Not sure if either can export into tikz or anything else that fits into the TeX file, though. Haven't used them myself -- gotten by with tikz copypasted from tex.stackexchange... | |
| Feb 28, 2018 at 17:06 | history | asked | James Propp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |