Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by dustingetz » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 7:27 PM UTC

Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor
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Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by armanboyaci » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 7:57 PM UTC

I also recommend http://latexdraw.sourceforge.net/

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by 3327 » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 7:57 PM UTC

Interesting choice of name. i was looking for such a tool. Gui are still limited in 2020

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by choeger » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 7:59 PM UTC

This looks like a really nice and well-made tool. Kudos and thanks for open sourcing!

One nitpick: Why do you use a Makefile without using any of the features of Make and then even requiring a special GNUMake feature to make things work like a shell script? Why not simply provide shell scripts in the first place?

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by flixic » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 8:06 PM UTC

3327 wrote: post #3

Interesting choice of name. i was looking for such a tool. Gui are still limited in 2020

I was wondering about the name too, but the first example (and the logo) made it clear. It's just full of arrows.

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by CalChris » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 8:09 PM UTC

3327 wrote: post #3

Interesting choice of name. i was looking for such a tool. Gui are still limited in 2020

Arrows. Lots of arrows.

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 8:14 PM UTC

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Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by chalst » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 8:19 PM UTC

armanboyaci wrote: post #2

I also recommend http://latexdraw.sourceforge.net/

I wish there was such a tool creating Metapost code. Metapost output is much more readable than pstricks and far, far faster than TikZ. And FWIW, it's what Knuth uses.

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by JorgeGT » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 8:26 PM UTC

3327 wrote: post #3

Interesting choice of name. i was looking for such a tool. Gui are still limited in 2020

I remember the first time I tried to plot a vector field in MATLAB. In Mathematica, the function it is of course VectorPlot[]. I spent quite a bit of time fumbling around until I found that some funny MathWorks developer had named the equivalent function quiver() because, of course, it holds lots of arrows!

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by svxml » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 8:40 PM UTC

flixic wrote: post #5

3327 wrote: post #3

Interesting choice of name. i was looking for such a tool. Gui are still limited in 2020

I was wondering about the name too, but the first example (and the logo) made it clear. It's just full of arrows.

It is a standard name in representation theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiver_(mathematics)) which use a lot these kind of diagrams.