On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I am considering Inkscape as a technical illustration > tool for latex documents (papers and book chapters). > Suggestions for better tools? > > I usually set up bash scripts (with lots of comments) > to automate the assembly of my documents, rather than > use graphic environments like openoffice. I am NOT > looking for a complete document design tool. > > I have Inkscape running now in SL7.3, though it has > a strange rendering problem (overlaid windows leave > translucent ghosts) that I'll need to fix if I want > to use it for production. I used LaTeX and Inkscape for most of my drawings in my doctorate dissertation. Though I did not use much of the built-in LaTeX integration within Inkscape itself, for my documents I exported drawings as .png or .pdf for better quality and used them as figure environments. Inkscape is a good portable tool for such things. I used a Makefile for automation and building of my thesis instead of bash scripts to assemble the PDF. -- Serguei Mokhov http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~mokhov http://cciff.ca | http://mdreams-stage.com http://marf.sf.net | http://sf.net/projects/marf