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Re: Kinship system

From:Christopher Wright <dhasenan@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 5:11
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