Ways to Draw Diagrams Displayed on Math.SE

 Posted on December 23, 2020  |  2 minutes  |    |   0 comment

I wanted to start a meta question, but I don’t see a point of that after viewing some related posts listed at the end of the next subsection.

Intended question

You may vote on your preferred way.

Ways Advantages Disadvantages
AMScd supported on Math.SE for a long time
  • no diagonal arrows
  • syntax less well-known
  • Two-way arrows $\rightleftarrows$ look odd
array
  • supported on Math.SE for a long time
  • easier syntax
  • write basic diagonal arrows like $\nearrow$
  • fine tuning spacing is hard
  • diagonal arrows only work for neighboring nodes
ASCIIFlow WYSIWYG interface lines are rendered as slashes in code
TikZ
  • well known syntax
  • can draw pretty diagrams
 not supported on SE, need to import as picture
others?

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