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Tikzcd – A simple visual editor for creating commutative diagrams

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Re: Tikzcd – A simple visual editor for creating commutative diagrams

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Post by y7 » Sat, Nov 04, 2017, 10:21 AM UTC

megapatch wrote: post #9

Reinventing plantuml and dot I guess. Go have a look at those as well, they have their uses and are awesome.

I don't know PlantUML or dot very well, but it seems to me neither of them are visual editors? Also, tikz diagrams are used a lot in mathematics writing and presentations, which seems to be a very different use case.

Re: Tikzcd – A simple visual editor for creating commutative diagrams

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Post by lancebeet » Sat, Nov 04, 2017, 11:09 AM UTC

Pretty cool, I'll definitely give this a go the next time I need to draw diagrams. I wish there would be a reset button for the line curvature and that ctrl-z would undo though.

Re: Tikzcd – A simple visual editor for creating commutative diagrams

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Post by solidangle » Sat, Nov 04, 2017, 11:41 AM UTC

Tikzcd is a LaTeX package for easily creating commutative diagrams with Tikz. This seems to be an editor which outputs tikzcd LaTeX commands.

Many thanks for sharing this though. It is very easy and convenient to create simple diagrams with tikzcd, but I often struggle to make larger and more complex diagrams look nice.

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