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Subject: Re: XFig and more?
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2005, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
>Hi,

>In the Unix world, XFig has been one of the popular programmes to produce
>diagrams. Would there any more tools like XFig which is very suit to use
>together with LaTeX?

>(For example, I have heard that there is a text-base graphic tool or
>something?)

I don't know about text-based, but I've played a bit with ``dia''
on Linux systems, but not enough to really evaluate it against
xfig, which I've used for many years now.

Bill
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