Forest beyond basics

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Sonntag, dem 19.12.2021 um 16:24 -0500 schrieb Steve Litt via lyx-
users:
> LyX and LaTeX were never intended to make drawings or diagrams. 

But tikz and xy (and some other packages) were.

> Not really. Just take 20 minutes to make your drawing in Inkscape,
> then put it in your LyX document just like you'd put any old .png or
> more to the point .svg. LyX automatically recompiles your Inscape-
> produced .svg into a PDF suitable for LyX/LaTeX upon finding that the
> .svg has changed.

Everybody to their taste. Personally, I think tikz is excellent, and I
prefer it a lot over inkscape for most diagrams, and certainly for
linguistic trees.

Tikz might be a challenge to newcomers as it does not have a GUI
(natively) but it is way superior in some regards (overlays, different
output formats). I also very much prefer it typographic quality over
inkscape's (at least what is provided without much intervention).


Jürgen
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