Re: drawing Feynman Graphs
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:04:16AM +1000, James McCaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 01:52 +0200, Joerg Reckers wrote:
> > hi everyone,
> > today i needed to draw some Feynman diagrams and remembered that there was a
> > simple program for this task called FeynmanGraph [1]. Wasn't this program in
> > the debian reportoire a few years ago? Or did i use another distro?
> >
> > Anyone here ever created some nice looking Feynman diagrams? Which programs do
> > you use?
> >
>
> If you are using LaTeX, then feynmf is the way to go. It it a standard
> part of the tetex packages distributed with debian. It uses MetaFont, so
> is a little strange to use, but google should help.
Just in case you were going for feynmf, use feynmp instead. feynmp uses
metapost and that solves a lot of limitations (not to mention quirks)
that feynmf has. Futhermore, if you use rubber (deb package) to compile
your latex source it will compile your feynmp figures on the fly.
David
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
> > greetings,
> > joerg
> >
> > [1]http://www.physics.odu.edu/~musatov/
> >
> >
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