Re: [tlug] genkou youshi templates

["Gernot Hassenpflug" <aikishugyo@example.com>]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> Attila Kinali writes:
>
>   > Yes, i tried that (and various other ways latex provides),
>   > but none gave me the result i wanted. Don't ask me what
>   > the problem was with the above...
>
>  Well, I'm curious what it was that latex wasn't doing that you wanted
>  it to do.
>
>   > But to state the obvious, latex isn't the optimal tool
>   > for something like this as latex focus is one something
>   > totaly different than making exactly placed lines on a
>   > sheet of paper.
>
>  I don't use it if I want to plot graphs, I'll admit, but it's fine for
>  Manhattan geometry (ie, exactly placed vertical and horizontal lines)
>  ... if I know the coordinates I want.

The Tikz/PGF package provides some nice plotting tools that are fairly
portable. They don't give the full power of postscript that PSTricks
allows, but you can use the PGF language to do some things that
postscript cannot, like alpha blending. It's a good compromise for
scientific graphics.