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Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by varkor »

choeger wrote: post #4

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?

Thanks! I use a Makefile simply because someone else contributed it early on in the development and it did the job, so I didn't see a reason to replace it. If there's a better way, I'd be happy to receive a pull request to change it!

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by cartesiancat »

IshKebab wrote: post #11

I recommend IPE for this sort of thing (unless you need exactly this). http://ipe.otfried.org/ It's by far the best diagramming tool for Latex.

Commutative diagrams, and pasting diagrams in particular, are a precise mathematical notation that other tools just don't handle well. I don't know many diagram editors that support edges-between-edges.

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by c17r »

yborg wrote: post #16
chris_st wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunate name collision with the macOS/iOS note taking app Quiver [1] which doesn't do diagrams, but does do LaTeX. [1] https://happenapps.com

Actually it does diagrams, sequence and flowchart. Sadly, the app has gotten more or less no development for at least 4 years and the developer has stopped responding to bug reports for at least a year. It's abandonware at this point.

I wish someone would make a cross-platform version of Quiver with a new cell type that replicates the Sublime PlainTasks plugin.

It's on my list of side projects that I never seem to put a dent into.

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by sirjaz »

varkor wrote: post #23

I'm happy to see people are interested in the editor! Let me also point out that I wrote a short blog post about the motivation behind quiver, as well as some of its key features, here: https://varkor.github.io/blog/2020/11/25/announcing-quiver.h...

Are there any plans to make this a desktop app. I despise graphical editors in a browser

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by varkor »

sirjaz wrote: post #27
varkor wrote: post #23

I'm happy to see people are interested in the editor! Let me also point out that I wrote a short blog post about the motivation behind quiver, as well as some of its key features, here: https://varkor.github.io/blog/2020/11/25/announcing-quiver.h...

Are there any plans to make this a desktop app. I despise graphical editors in a browser

I've been considering it. If you'd find a desktop app useful, please do open an issue on GitHub: that way I can gauge the demand a little better, which will help me to prioritise what to work on next!

Re: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

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Post by varkor »

tlb wrote: post #29

Could you support nice-looking causal diagrams? Most look like the bubble-and-line diagrams in [Pearl 95]( http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/R218-B.pdf ). I think it would increase their popularity (and the quality of science) if it was easy to include nice ones in papers & blogs.

I think you should already be able to draw most of the causal diagrams from that paper already: you can use `\circ` for the white circles and `\bullet` for the black ones. Perhaps the only missing feature is being able to draw double-ended arrows? That's on my to-do list; let me know if there's something else that's missing.
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