[HN Gopher] The Ipe extensible drawing editor
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       The Ipe extensible drawing editor
        
       Author : goranmoomin
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2024-03-04 07:03 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (ipe.otfried.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (ipe.otfried.org)
        
       | roussanoff wrote:
       | I used Ipe as an alternative to TikZ package for LaTeX. Ipe is a
       | great tool that allows some manual moving of chart's components
       | but can also be edited through code. You can insert formulas
       | using LaTeX typesetting. It's also much easier to use for a
       | complete beginner than TikZ. Highly recommend giving it a shot if
       | you found TikZ to be too time-consuming.
        
       | innis226 wrote:
       | I use ipe all the time. Perfect for making schematics for
       | research papers.
        
       | rav wrote:
       | Ipe is a nice power tool - I learned to use it in grad school and
       | have used it to draw technical illustrations that are essentially
       | polished sketches. For example Figures 1 through 8 in this paper:
       | https://users.cs.duke.edu/~pankaj/publications/papers/flood-...
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       | Other people like TikZ, but the kinds of illustrations I
       | gravitate towards rarely have a neat exact compass and
       | straightedge feel that lends itself to coding in TikZ (e.g.
       | Figure 4). Then for certain figures I have used Ipe as an
       | intermediate language similar to SVG, where I would write a
       | Python program to produce some precise drawing that I could then
       | tweak by hand in the Ipe GUI (e.g. Figure 2).
        
       | nyanpasu64 wrote:
       | Are there any screenshots of the user interface, or is it solely
       | a language (despite the manual describing selections and mouse
       | interaction)?
        
         | rav wrote:
         | It's a quite distinct GUI - there's not really any screenshots
         | in the official materials, but if you do a Google image search
         | for "ipe" "latex" then you can see what it looks like.
        
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