What program for authoring flowcharts

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 June 2012 14:48, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> I do all of my graphical documentation using GraphViz
>>> (http://www.graphviz.org/).
>>>
>>> Any use?
>>
>> Interesting idea.  I didn't know about this package.  However....
>>
>> It's not obvious how best to use this for flowcharts.  I like to
>> control layout, but much of the purpose of this package seems to be to
>> do automatic layout.  Moreover, there's a lot of markup I usually do
>> -- mainly cross-references between pages, but commentary too -- that
>> doesn't seem to fit in.
>
> Indeed - that was why I was hesitant in suggesting it to you. Whilst I
> rarely have to write flowcharts I do a lot of state diagrams, which
> can get quite complex - the algorithmic layout engine can make the
> best of a tough job for me. How you'd fare with trying to generate a
> flowchart is a bit of an unknown.
>
> A quick google search throws up
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbye/sets/72157601523153827/detail/ (I
> can't see the pictures on there thanks to the proxy here at work)

Impressive, but only one of them strikes me as even vaguely flowchart-like.

I'll be sure to remember this for graphs, though.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD