draw a pretty timeline graphic w/ text?

[William Park]

Not sure what kind of tools you should use...
but isn't vertical direction easier than horizontal?
-- 
William


>
>From: Matt Price <moptop99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>To: TLUG <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
>Sent: Thu, November 4, 2010 6:55:12 AM
>Subject: [TLUG]: draw a pretty timeline graphic w/ text?
>
>Hi eveyone,
>
>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?
>
>and yet I haven't been able to do it.  I will resort to gimp if i have to but 
>for me that means hours of fiddling with the arcane interface... 
>
>
>Thanks as always for your help!
>Matt
>

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