Anyone have a recommendation for a software package that makes it easy to draw the equivalent of flow chart? with boxes, triangles, circles as junctions?? .oooO Jim Stasheff jds@math.unc.edu (UNC) since retiring from UNC hanging out at U Penn jds@math.upenn.edu \ ( 146 Woodland Dr FAX:(215)-573-4063 \*) Lansdale PA 19446-1437 http://www.math.unc.edu/Faculty/jds
Try gastex - it's available from Paul Gastin's home page: http://www.liafa.jussieu.fr/~gastin/gastex/gastex.html Best regards, Mike Mislove ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Stasheff" <stasheff@email.unc.edu> To: <categories@mta.ca> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:37 AM Subject: categories: graphics package | Anyone have a recommendation for a software package that makes it easy | to draw the equivalent of flow chart? | with boxes, triangles, circles as junctions?? | | | .oooO Jim Stasheff jds@math.unc.edu | (UNC) since retiring from UNC hanging out at U Penn jds@math.upenn.edu | \ ( 146 Woodland Dr FAX:(215)-573-4063 | \*) Lansdale PA 19446-1437 | | http://www.math.unc.edu/Faculty/jds | | |
Jim Stasheff wrote:
Anyone have a recommendation for a software package that makes it easy to draw the equivalent of flow chart? with boxes, triangles, circles as junctions??
I like Xy-Pic very much (with LaTeX). It can do that. You would probably use the "graph" feature or see the worked example on p. 10 of the user's guide. The downside is that the user's guide and the reference manual are very spotty. I find the only way to learn to use Xy-pic, and then to learn to use any given feature, is to copy the examples out of the relevant section of the user's guide or the reference manual and fool around with them until you see which parts do what. The Xy-pic chapter of the LaTeX GRAPHICS COMPANION was *extremely* helpful to me. Colin
Anyone have a recommendation for a software package that makes it easy to draw the equivalent of flow chart? with boxes, triangles, circles as junctions??
For this and many similar applications (Hasse diagrams, one-off characters like inverted ampersand, etc.), Latex's picture environment is a remarkably expressive language, permitting a self-contained library of macros for drawing circuits to be implemented in 20 noncomment lines. See http://boole.stanford.edu/pub/sumprod.pdf http://boole.stanford.edu/pub/TEX/sumprod.tex for the circuit realization of sum and tensor product in chu(Set,2), which appeared in http://boole.stanford.edu/pub/gates.pdf (FOCS'93 Palo Alto) and http://boole.stanford.edu/pub/bud.pdf (TEMPUS'94 Budapest). Vaughan Pratt
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