Bryan A. O'Gorman

I'm missing the motivation. Is it not possible to do symbolic compilation?

Well, I guess I see the motivation, but I don't see why the solution is not to just have symbolic parameters from start to finish. Taking a concrete circuit and...

The difficulty with putting a single box around a multi-qubit gate is that the parameters of the relevant qcircuit command use absolute positions rather than relative ones. I'm not sure...

qcircuit does seem quite restrictive (e.g. there's also no way to color individual parts of the circuit), so I'm definitely open to alternatives. It would be great to decide ASAP...

Craig also mentioned (#516) the possibility of svgwrite. That seems powerful enough and it would enable fine-grained control, but at the cost of having to build all the quantum-computing primitives...

Is anyone working on "image diagrams"? In a sense, that's what the latex diagrams are. It would be great to have an alternative, because Xy-pic (on which qcircuit is based)...

One first step along these lines would be separating the "text" and "diagram" parts of `TextDiagramDrawer`. For example, the padding attributes thereof seem specific to text diagrams (at least in...

How would the boxes be specified?

I meant at a higher level. I imagibe you'd want to box a set of operations or something like that. Relatedly, what use case(s) do you have in mind?

I see. Something similar is done in `qcircuit`, but the difference there is that it's just a matter of changing the wire symbols to use the "multigate" macro.