draw a pretty timeline graphic w/ text?

[Julian C. Dunn]

On 11/04/2010 06:55 AM, Matt Price wrote:

> I'm trying to do something that seems really simple to me but i still
> don't know how to do.  I want to draw a timeline that represents the
> stages of a research project (inception, research, presentation,
> writing, submission, publication...)  and I would like it to look
> something like this:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> \                             \
>  \                             \
>   inception                research
> 
> only I want it to be pretty, say with little circular nodes connecting
> the digonal lines to the main horizontl lines, and with the text aligned
> diagonally along the lines.  Shouldn't this be easy to do, either in
> Openoffice (ick) or with another tool?  in fact shouldn't i be able to
> generate this automatically from a set of terms, say, in a spreadsheet?

Matt,

What about GraphViz? Note: I haven't used it, but I know it can do this
sort of thing programatically.

http://www.graphviz.org/

- Julian
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