Re: Kinship system

Amanda Babcock Furrow wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:34:22AM -0000, Michael Poxon wrote:
>> Your style definitions are inside "comment" tags - see what nasty nasty
>> word has done?
>> It would be much easier to either use a basic HTML editor or even
>> notepad.
>
> Michael, yes, that is how I write an HTML file, except I use vi or emacs.
>
> This is a diagram.  HTML does not draw diagrams.  I used Word because it's
> the only diagram-drawing tool I know.  I only made Word save it to "HTML"
> in hopes that it would generate graphics.  Word failed to do so.
There's xfig/winfig (really old, okay considering their age) or Dia
(which is comparable to xfig -- not a compliment, considering it's much
newer and better maintained).

For papers intended to be submitted to a CS journal, I'd use xfig, since
it's standard. For personal use, I would probably use Inkscape, a vector
graphics program, if I wanted something presentable, or xfig.

> All that nonsense
>> that MS Word adds to an (hah!) "HTML" file is taking up tons of space and
>> bloating the size of your file.
>
> Yes, duh, I knew that.  I had a diagram which I had spent really quite a
> lot of hours on and I was just looking for a way of helping people see it
> who couldn't read Word docs.
I think Microsoft offers a PDF export plugin[1]. If not, maybe
OpenOffice can handle the diagrams and do the PDF export. Or you could
get the OpenDocument plugin for MS Office[2], which might suffice.

> Amanda
[1]
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F1FC413C-6D89-4F15-991B-63B07BA5F2E5&displaylang=en
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter