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Ipe Reviews

1. Shibaji Banerjee

   | Teaching and Research | over 2 years ago
   IPE has close LaTeX integration

   I find IPE to be a life-savior when it comes to generating physics illustrations which come with their share of math toppings. The editor has nice utilities for latching on to the boundaries, intersection, center etc of geometric figures. The spline tool is the best I have seen anywhere. Layers are handled with grace. LaTeX is rendered instantly. It is very easy to produce a multipage document. What more can one possibly want?

   🏁 Competitors: Airtable, PGF and TikZ, LaTeXDraw

   👍 Pros:    Produces multipage documents|Possible to include latex style files and includes|Live rendering of latex blocks, not just math|Very easy to add stepwise revelations|Comes with a presenter that understands notes|Produced pdf can be easily included in latex documents|Completely free and open source

   👎 Cons:    May be difficult to figure some things right out of the box

Kroki mentions (31)

• D2 Playground

  Pikchr https://pikchr.org/home/pikchrshow is the other general purpose one and older than d2. It is "Source-Code License: 0-clause BSD" as it says on the page. Someone made it into wasm and put playground for pikchr here https://www.jakethaw.com/pikchr_webassembly_demo/ Can also try pikchr online here on https://kroki.io/#try which is hosting many other text to diagram tools as well. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Nomnoml

  If you don't mind my asking, what aspects of "acceptable layout" is usually the first to get busted? I'm extremely excited about using WireViz[1] to automate wiring harness diagram creation, and if I can, I'd like to know the speedbumps before I hit them. I'm thinkin generous linking between diagrams will be one path. [1] Project:: https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz [select Diagram>WireViz]. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• LaTeX for publishing tabletop role-playing games

  The SVG output is embedded into the PDF file. https://kroki.io/examples.html#mind-map Kroki has other text-based formats for flow charts, Gantt charts, UML diagrams, packet diagrams, network diagrams, word clouds, etc. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML

  My cross-platform desktop text editor, KeenWrite, allows users to define variables in an external YAML file. The editor calls out to Kroki[1] to convert text-based diagrams to SVG. The diagrams can reference variables and are rendered using EchoSVG[2]. KeenWrite[3] can produce PDF documentation from Markdown documents that has PlantUML diagrams with elements stored in an external, machine-readable file. Here are... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation

  Did you try to use https://kroki.io/ as renderer instead? - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Ipe mentions (0)