Forest beyond basics

[Steve Litt]

Herbert Voss via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 09:30:54 +0100

>Am 19.12.21 um 22:24 schrieb Steve Litt via lyx-users:

>> LyX and LaTeX were never intended to make drawings or diagrams. Not
>> really.  
>
>That is not true! From the beginning of LaTeX there was the picture
>environment with, of course, limited capability. But it was good enough
>for simple diagrams/graphics.

     ^^^^^^

And I'm pretty sure that just drawing it in Inkscape is a faster
workflow than repeatedly changing a number, compiling, and looking at
the result. I think the text based trial and error method would take an
awful lot of time for the following diagram:

http://troubleshooters.com/linux/presentations/golug_runit/images/runsv_supervision.svg

SteveT

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