easy SVG drawing in jupyter and elsewhere...

Click on the "brush" icon in the jupyter toolbar to create an SVG cell below the current selection.

To change the label of a shape, double-click on it and type. Hit enter to finish. To use latex, start and finish the label with $$ as in $$\sum_i i$$.

egal's focus is on drawing simple graphs:

• Basic Shapes (circles, rectangles, lines)
• Connectors
• Labels, with support for Latex
• Alignment hints when dragging and resizing
• Multiple Selection
• Copy & Paste

egal creates a raw jupyter cell and stores the edited SVG in the source code field of that cell.

Manually by cloning and changing the python path:

git clone https://github.com/uclmr/egal.git
cd egal
export PYTHONPATH=. 

or (experimental) install python package directly:

pip3 install git+https://github.com/uclmr/egal.git

jupyter nbextension install --py egal 
jupyter nbextension enable --py egal 

If you want to use egal outside of a notebook you need to install the server extensions (which allows clients to save the SVG on the jupyter server):

jupyter serverextension enable --py egal 

Then you can edit an SVG on the server via accessing http://localhost:8888/files/draw.html (assuming you run jupyter notebook locally).