[OS X TeX] Re: graphics with xelatex

[William Adams]

On Jul 4, 2007, at 5:14 AM, Luis Sequeira wrote:

> I drew a complete graph with 28 vertices (it has 378 edges!) using  
> some five lines of code. That you can't replicate in a drawing  
> program.

It would be more correct and compleate I believe if you were to add,  
``...without a lot of tedium and potentially error-prone repetition''  
at the end of that.

One can draw _anything_ in FreeHand or Illustrator and the like (and  
in FreeHand, snap to nodes, power duplicate &c. make technical  
drawings _much_ easier), but there're often better tools which is the  
point you were trying to make I believe.

A really wonderful book on this sort of thing is _Mathematical  
Illustrations_:

http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/

William

-- 
William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications



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