On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> I am considering Inkscape as a technical illustration
> tool for latex documents (papers and book chapters).
> Suggestions for better tools?
Inkscape would be my first choice, but I'd also consider
xfig (included in SL6; for SL7 you may need to get it from epel)
dia www.gnome.org/projects/dia
Zirkel / CaR (Compass and ruler)
http://car.rene-grothmann.de/
One interesting feature of dia is that it can be used
to generate sql schema.
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Andrew C Aitchison Cambridge, UK