[Gllug] LyX/TeX question

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:16:40PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 20:43 +0000, 'LesleyB ' wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > 
> > You don't say what distro you are on, but I can vouch for xfig when 
> > creating graphics for a LaTeX document.  
> > 
> > It produces the eps you need and the output is pretty good.
> 
> It took me a while to get used tio xfig, and it feels like going back 15
> years to running SunOS 2.whatever, but it does the job, as you say.

Indeed ...  I think it's interesting that no "modern" tool[1] is as
capable as xfig for making accurate figures for technical
documentation.

Rich.

[1] I've tried: dia, inkscape, Visio, gimp/gfig.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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