This opens a blank workspace where you can start your diagram. On the left-hand side of the window, you'll see a palette of all of the available drawing elements that you can use to generate your ...

Exactly. Italian researchers suspect the hand-drawn chess diagrams discovered in the only-known copy of “De Ludo Scacchorum” were done by Leonardo da Vinci, La Repubblica reported this week.

OpenOffice.org's tools for creating diagrams are easy to ignore. For one thing, their controls are extremely small. For another, they are pitifully under-documented in the online help, which plods ...