Free Drawing Program for Math & Physics Books

[kq6up]

Is there a widely used free drawing program that is used in conjunction with LaTeX for math books and physics text?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[gsal]

First, I would look into tikz.

There is also asymptote.

 

[Filip Larsen]

For geometrical figures I believe geogebra [1] would be very suitable. I remember using the old xfig [2] for my LateX work way back, but I guess it hasn't evolved much since then.

[1] http://www.geogebra.org/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfig

 

[kq6up]

Ahhh, I remember xfig.

Chris

 

[DrDu]

gnuplot?

 

[adjacent]

For geometrical figures I believe geogebra [1] would be very suitable.

This Geogebra seems to be very good. Better than Mathematica for my needs.
Thanks Filip.

 

[kq6up]

I am playing with xfig as I used it a long time ago. Is this able to do perspectives to make 3-d looking images, or would I just have to rely on my freehand skills.

Geogebra seems really cool. Can that output be incorporated into LaTeX?

Chris

 

[Sunfire]

XY-pic is another possibility, it is invoked from within the tex document to draw diagrams etc.

 

[Filip Larsen]

Geogebra seems really cool. Can that output be incorporated into LaTeX?

I have never tried it myself, but according to the manual [1] it should be possible both to annotate your drawings with LaTeX equations as well as export it to formats usable with LaTeX. Also, the sharelatex site [2] has a nice little video on how to use Geogebra to generate LaTeX figures [3] that seems to explain it well.

[1] http://wiki.geogebra.org/en/LaTeX
[2] https://www.sharelatex.com/
[3]

 

[vjacheslav]

Is it possible to couple LaTeX and WordPad?

 

[adjacent]

Is it possible to couple LaTeX and WordPad?

No need of that. You can use MS Word and it's equation editor.

 

[vjacheslav]

WordPad isn't the same as MS Word, and, besides not so suitable, as We wish.

 

[kq6up]

There is a plugin for OpenOffice that allows you to use LaTeX. It has been a while since I have used it, so Google is your friend on that one.

Regards,
Chris

 

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