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. -- Andrew C Aitchison Cambridge, UK