Re: [Texmacs-dev] drawing mode

[Amir Michail]

On 12/25/05, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <address@hidden> wrote:
> Couldn't you do this with XFig or Dia sessions? Graphviz?
>

Yes, but it would take more effort than a drawing mode that was
optimized for cs/math diagrams.

TeXmacs has elaborate algorithms to typeset text using accepted
conventions in technical fields. So why not also have elaborate
algorithms to typeset diagrams, again using accepted conventions for
technical fields?

One could for example go through an algorithms book and think about
how to reduce the effort required to recreate all the diagrams in the
book. What is the essence of each diagram? How would one create a
drawing mode that allows users to just focus on the essence of the
diagram and leave uninteresting details for the system to figure out?

Amir

> Amir Michail wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I think it would be neat if the drawing mode understood many sorts of
> >diagrams that one finds in CS and math papers.
> >
> >For example, it might have built in support for drawing abstract
> >trees, where you have triangles representing sections of the tree
> >where the details are not important.
> >
> >More generally, one could also have the drawing editor understand many
> >kinds of concrete and abstract graphs to allow the user to more easily
> >create them for illustrative purposes.
> >
> >I think what's needed here is something different from an automatic
> >graph layout algorithm, particularly for abstract graphs.  The user
> >should have more control over layout, but at the same time, the
> >drawing should not be too hard to construct.
> >
> >So I guess something that understands typical CS/math domain
> >concrete/abstract diagrams along with a constrained-based drawing
> >system might work out well.
> >
> >Amir
> >
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