Text-to-chart flow chart drawing system

[Adam McGreggor]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:53:32PM -0500, Mustafa Ozkaynak wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am a PhD student and for my thesis I need to draw huge and pretty complex
> flow-charts.
> The most popular tool being used is All-clear.
> http://www.allclearonline.com/ It has  a text-to-chart system so you basicly
> enter code and it draws flow chart for you. (like latex)
> Does anyone know a similar software that I can use in my Ubuntu box?

Gnuplot?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/math/gnuplot
  A command-line driven interactive plotting program

  Package for making 2D and 3D graphs from data and functions. Supports
  lots of output formats, including drivers for many printers, (La)TeX,
  (x)fig, Postscript, and so on. The X11-output is packaged in
  gnuplot-x11.

  Data files and self-defined functions can be manipulated by internal
  C-like language. Can perform smoothing, spline-fitting, or nonlinear
  fits. Can work with complex numbers.
  [...]

It takes a bit of time to get used to using it, but once you get the
hang (I'm by no means an expert on using it), it can produce some
outstanding plots.

HTH,

a