On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:18:10 -0700, Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
Dear cabal,
Do any of you have any examples of tree charts done in, say, MetaFun? Are there any macros, libraries etc. for easy tree charts in \ConTeXt?
Example: http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~anne/Aufl-Bilder/D7Tree.jpg
There are three ways you can do it in ConTeXt
1) Most features: pstricks (yes pstricks can be used with context, but you always have to go the ps->pdf route)
I used pstricks for this purpose for my dissertation years ago (LaTeX, dvips). It's been years since I used pstricks, does not seem too popular with ConTeXt, dvips does not work well with ConTeXt virtual fonts, etc....
2) Easiest syntax and prettiest looking output: tikz. You need one of the recent versions of tikz that work fine with context (except some of the exotic features, like adding arbitrary nodes to the page)
Never heard of it; will look it up
3) A very flexible system, but it takes a while to get used to the syntax: Metaobj. You also need a workabound to get metaobj to run correctly with metafun (search the mailing list for Taco's reply on a mail with metaobj in the subject)
Will look this up as well, though I don't look forward to yet another syntax (still need to get used to metapost ;-)
For things like this, my personal recommendation will be tikz. It is not as powerful as metapost, since all the calculations are done in tex, but the user interface is slightly easier to use than metapost, and it has a good looking library of functions.
If you need something, quick and dirty, plain metapost with boxes package will also work. There is also the flowchart module, but I do not think that it can draw diagonal lines.
Yes, otherwise that module would be the ticket. Maybe someone will extend it someday; I think a tree-chart module is at least just as important as one for flow charts. THANK YOU for the info! Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/