Me too. I only recently came across TikZ which is an even more epic way to TeX up fancy diagrams (you "program" them). Still use inkscape for most stuff though.

> Started using Inkscape in 2007 to illustrate a math paper, and been using it ever since whenever I needed to TeX something up.

That reminds me of this series of posts I read a while back:

• https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/

• https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-2/

• https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-3/

> I only recently came across TikZ which is an even more epic way to TeX up fancy diagrams (you "program" them). Still use inkscape for most stuff though.

Check out link 2 in particular there.

I learned enough TikZ for a project to create a pretty wide range of generic flowcharts/diagrams.

Now I'm no longer using TeX daily and kind of regret boxing myself in.

I find that I'm either working with teams that are 100% "TeX all the way" or 0% "please no."

You and GP wrote "[to] TeX up", is this a common idiom?

Yes? At least in some mathy/sciencey circles.

The Latex plugins really make things interesting. The LaTeXText package [1] allows formula rendering and editing from within the Inkscape canvas.

For tidy circuit diagrams the CircuitSymbols plugin [2] produces exquisite results by hooking into Latex's circuitTikz package and dumping the rendered result on the canvas. Typically I generate a bunch of circuit promitives and then connect them afterwards using snaps and the line tool.

[1] https://inkscape.org/~seebk/%E2%98%85latextext-render-latex-...

[2] https://inkscape.org/pt-br/~fsmMLK/%E2%98%85circuitsymbols

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