[OS X TeX] Drawing diagrams: what's better?

[Joseph C. Slater PE, PhD]

On May 17, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Tim Brophy wrote:

> The application GeoGebra can produce beautiful art work and has an option to translate it into Tikz. It is certainly worth considering.
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> Tim Brophy
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I'm a big fan of IPE. You can get GUI drawing and embed latex directly. I haven't used it for a while, though. It seems to be neglected on the mac, but is still nice. jfig is a continued development of xfig, but with reduced export options. I like to be able to get to metapost in many cases because you can "hand code" details and tweaks, so I go to xfig sometimes as well. I do hand-code metapost from time to time. 
Joe