Hi, im doing a project on knot theory and having trouble finding good ways to put diagrams of knots into TeXnicCenter. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
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Re: Knot diagrams
You can also use XYPic, see http://lf.starlogik.de/XYPic-Knot-Intro/index.html for a tutorial.
However I think the easiest will be to produce the diagrams in any vector drawing program and then export it in a format that you can include in your tex file via the graphicx package. For a detailed description of how to draw know diagrams using a vector drawing program see http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Ar ... rking.html
Of course you can also look into custom knot drawing programs, like Knot 3D for example (http://www.abbott.demon.co.uk/knots.html#programs).
All of the above is wisdom gained from a few minutes of googling. You will probably find better answers.
However I think the easiest will be to produce the diagrams in any vector drawing program and then export it in a format that you can include in your tex file via the graphicx package. For a detailed description of how to draw know diagrams using a vector drawing program see http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Ar ... rking.html
Of course you can also look into custom knot drawing programs, like Knot 3D for example (http://www.abbott.demon.co.uk/knots.html#programs).
All of the above is wisdom gained from a few minutes of googling. You will probably find better answers.