On Thursday 20 Jan 2011 23:25:32 Ralph Graulich wrote: > Hello troffers! > > Did someone try to layout E/R diagrams with pic? > Several years ago I built a very rudimentary toolchain, which read one or > more config files, took the table definitions from the database's data > dictionary, sends them through a large awk script, which did the > conversion to pic markup and layed out an E/R diagram, albeit a very > simple one. To my pity it seems the scripts are lost. > > Are there any read-to-use solutions using pic+troff or maybe just pic > macros for the basic elements of an E/R diagram? Or do I rather have to > resort to write the whole script again? > > Best regards > Ralph
Hi Ralph, Graphvis is very good at things like this, and Ervis is specifically for E/R diagrams. <http://www.ab.auone-net.jp/~simply/en/works/erviz/about.html> Cheers Deri
